Middle English Dictionary Entry
hardīes(se n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hardīes(se n. Also hardiesce. |
| Etymology | OF hardïece |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Bravery, courage, daring; also, a spirit of daring; (b) audacity, rashness.
Associated quotations
a
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)83/17 : Ine prouesse byeþ þri þinges to-deld: hardyesse [F hardiesce], strengþe, an stedeuestnesse.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)162/30 : Hardyesse uor to þolie alle þe kueadnesse þet þe wordle may þreapni.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2088 : The love..For his ladi, whom he desireth, With hardiesse [vr. hardinesse] his herte fyreth.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1861 : Couardie It [wine] torneth into hardiesse.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3607 : Betwen the simplesce of Pite And the folhaste of crualte, Wher stant the verray hardiesce [vr. hardinesse].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.4822 : He is of such an hardiesse That he can noght himselve spare.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)29 : In lessing youre courage ne abating of your hardiesse.
- a1605(c1471) Arriv.Edw.IV in Camd.1 (Hrl 543)37 : They greatly adrad..ne havynge hardies to abyde the Kynge and his puisaunce.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)1466 : Þe hardiesse hou cam it þe Þus forto Aposi me?
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)1481 : Þo he com outward wiþ is folc, þe emperour atstod, & dradde is hardiesse [vr. hardynesse], & þoȝte it nas noȝt god.