bravery

Borrowed from Middle French braverie, from braver (“to brave”), or Italian braveria, from bravare (“to brave”).^[1] By surface analysis, brave +‎ -ery.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪv.ə.ɹi/, /ˈbɹeɪv.ɹi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvəɹi, -eɪvɹi

bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)

1. (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
2. (countable) A brave act.
   • 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎^[1]:

     Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

3. Splendor, magnificence.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
     And make me travel forth without my cloak,
     To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
     Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 3:18:

     In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon

• (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage