valorous
/ˈvælərəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having or displaying valour.
Example Sentences
- "c. 1490, William Caxton (translator), The Boke of Eneydos, Westminster, Preface, this present booke compyled by virgyle ryght subtyl and Ingenyous oratour & poete Intytuled Eneydos hath be translated oute of latyn in to comyn langage In whiche may alle valyaunt prynces and other nobles see many valorous fayttes of armes."
- "[…] he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England."
- "[…] I shall be at York—at the head of my daring and valorous fellows, as ready to support any bold design as thy policy can be to form one."
- "He held up the glass. ‘To your valorous wounds. To the silver medal. […]’"
- "There are many valorous stories told of her, which enthral grown men as well as children."
- "For all its pragmatic public-health spade work, the foundation has also served as a kind of valorous abstraction — the seeming embodiment of “the Golden Rule,” in a phrase that Bill Gates likes to use, and the face of an increasingly anachronistic era of elite optimism."
Etymology
From Old French valeureux.
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂welh₁-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvælərəs/