Noun: courage
| Singular | courage |
| Plural | courages |
Sample Sentences
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. [1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay IV. Culture.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 120:]
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. [1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:]
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It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
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He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. [1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter XII”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 155:]
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” [1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters:]
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. [1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:]
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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. [1993, Stanley P. Cornils, The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely:]
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2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
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I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again. [2008, Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay:]
Nouns inflected like courage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”). See: Middle English Nouns '
corage', French Nouns '
courage', Latin Nouns '
cor', Middle English Nouns '
elne', Old English Nouns '
ellen'.