pot valiancyn.
/pɒt ˈvalɪənsi/, U.S. /pɑt ˈvæljənsi/ rare.
= pot-valour n.
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the mind > emotion > courage > Dutch courage > [noun]
pot-valour?1623
pot courage1806
Dutch courage1826
bottle bravery1830
pot-valiantry1845
pot-valiance1872
pot valiancy1876
1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. i. 8 His bursts of pot-valiancy..are awful to his friends.
1955 J. Branch Cabell As I remember It xxv. 158 Realists..would deny to their puppets the unfailing narcotic, the mild inebriation, nay, the pot valiancy of this same optimism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1876- unilaterality
- unilateralization
- unilateralized
- unilaterally
- uniliche
- unilimp
- unilineal
- unilinealism
- unilineally
- unilinear
- unilinearism
- unilingual
- unilingualism
- unilingually
- uniliteral
- unillumed
- unilluminated
- unilluminating
- unilluminatingly
- unillumined
- unillusioned
- unillusory
- unillustrated
- unillustrative
- unillustrious