Har"di*ness (?), n.
1.
Capability of endurance.
2.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother.
Shak.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
Clarendon.
3.
Hardship; fatigue.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
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