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auˈdaciousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Boldness, confidence, daring.
1601Holland Pliny II. 494 The audaciousnesse of the artificer, who ventured to make so huge and monstrous works. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 75 As much a man as either of her colleagues, in audaciousness, in enterprise, and in the thirst of domination.
2. Reckless daring; = audacity 2.
1599Mirr. Policie 25 Fortitude..reduceth feare and audaciousnesse to mediocritie. 1742Middleton Cicero (ed. 3) II. vi. 17 In an act so mad..his audaciousness could not get the better of his fears.
3. Presumptuousness, effrontery, impudence, shamelessness; = audacity 3.
1599Warn. Faire Wom. ii. 1493 He should with such audaciousness presume To baffle Justice. a1639Whateley Prototypes i. iv. (1640) 42 A grievous audaciousnesse..that hee would leape over the poles as it were which God had fixed. 1838–9Hood's Own, Jubb Lett. 53 As Mr. Davis had the audaciousness to own to. |