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单词 bravery
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braveryn.

/ˈbreɪvəri/
Etymology: probably < French braverie the action of braving, < braver to brave v., or < Italian braveria , < bravare to brave v.
1. The action of braving or acting the bravo; daring, defiance; boasting, swaggering; bravado. a bravery: an act of bravado. in, upon, or for a bravery: in bravado, in defiance, in display of courage or daring, as a brag. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. E.iv The Scottes continued their brauerie on the hill.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. x. §3. 113 The whole Campe (not perceiuing that this was but a brauerie) fled a-maine.
a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 63 No man is an Atheist, however he pretend it, and serve the company with his braveries.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1243 E're long thou shalt lament These braveries in Irons loaden on thee. View more context for this quotation
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxiv No time, said he, is this for bravery.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. 241 In a braverie to show what store he had.1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C3v To come and kill the French king in a bravery and returne.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 92 Certaine of the souldiours vpon a brauerie aduentured..to mount the wall.1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. x. §5. 115 He made a stand, rather in a brauerie, than with purpose to attempt..any further.1666 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 23 We sate for four Hours, and in Bravery I drank fair like all the rest.
2. Daring, courage, valour, fortitude (as a good quality). In earlier quotations not clearly separable from sense 1. (The ordinary current sense.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [noun]
boldshipc1275
couragea1382
audacity1432
fierceness1490
confidence1526
spritec1540
gallantness1555
braverya1586
braveness1589
confidency1600
lion-heart1667
bravity1689
outdaciousness1778
nads1976
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. H3v He receiued more brauerie of minde, by the patterne of Achilles, then by hearing the definition of Fortitude.
1613 J. Hayward Liues III. Normans 150 Full of inward braverie and fiercenesse.
1729 W. Law Serious Call xxiv. 498 The noblest bravery that an human mind is capable of.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 13 The bravery..of the commander in chief.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 116 What can a woman be, or do, without bravery?
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 153 Lancelot, the flower of bravery.
3.
a. Display, show, ostentation; splendour.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [noun] > fine or gay appearance
gaynessc1443
show1539
fineness1553
bravery1573
brave1596
gaudiness1601
gallantry1613
gaiety1625
blow1710
1573 T. Tusser tr. St. Bernard in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 24v The brauery of this world..likened is, to flower of grasse.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. xiii. 18/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Their apparell was not made for brauery & pompe.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. iv. 855 a Wastfull and sumpteous bravery of women.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. vi. 144 The churches began to excel in costliness and bravery.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 390 A Festival, designed chiefly for..joyfull Piety, but generally made only an occasion of Bravery.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. i. 24 All their wonted bravery of apparel.
1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) v. 78 The leaves are in all their bravery.
b. concrete. Finery, fine clothes; = Scottish braws (braw n.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > fine, splendid, or ornamental
quaintise1340
quaintries1484
tricking1549
bravery1563
flaunt1590
puppetry1598
frippery1637
finery1647
gentricec1650
hufty-tuftya1652
prinkum-prankum1683
fegary1724
chiffons1888
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy
bawdrya1529
bravery1563
fangle1583
flaunt1590
gaudery1597
trumperya1616
ginger-work1631
frippery1637
finery1647
tawdrya1680
tawdrum1680
tinsey1685
flappet1728
gingerbread work1748
tinsel1782
fallalery1824
tinselry1830
figgery1841
flaring1881
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes vi, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 309 Preparing ourselves in fine bravery, to wanton, lewd, and unchaste behaviour.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 608 All the braverie that eye may see.
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 100 Exceed not in the humour of rags and bravery.
1636 Sympson Law-breakers Have I borrowed the forehorse bells, his plumes, his braveries.
1862 Times 26 June 11/1 Tens of thousands..in their decent Sunday bravery.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 86 There stood our guide, decked out with braveries.
c. An adornment, an embellishment. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament
ornamenta1382
paramentc1395
adornmentc1405
flower1542
furniture1548
furniments1553
bravery1577
grace1579
trim1579
honour1589
outsetc1590
parergy1592
trapping1596
adornation1597
parergon1601
accomplishment1605
bellishment1611
facing1622
decorement1632
embellishment1632
gallantry1633
ornamentals1650
disguisements1655
decorationa1678
buska1687
decorament1727
pretty1736
tahalli1833
chicken fixings1840
ornamentality1842
grace note1922
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 79/1 in Chron. I Suche paynting of their bodyes..they estemed a great brauerie.
1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 13v The Nayri..vse for a brauerye to make great holes in their eares.
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 526 Their teeth are all filed, which they doe for a brauerie.
d. A thing of beauty or interest, a thing to exhibit. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing
starOE
dainty1340
daisyc1485
say-piece1535
bravery1583
paragon1585
daint1633
rapper1653
supernaculum1704
dandy1785
roarer1813
sneezer1823
plum1825
trimmer1827
sockdolager1838
rasper1844
dinger1861
job1863
fizzer1866
champagne1880
beauty1882
pie1884
twanger1889
smasher1894
crackerjack1895
Taj Mahal1895
beaut1896
pearler1901
lollapalooza1904
bearcat1909
beaner1911
grande dame1915
Rolls-Royce1916
the nuts1917
pipperoo1939
rubydazzler1941
rumpty1941
rumptydooler1941
snodger1941
sockeroo1942
sweetheart1942
zinger1955
blue-chipper1957
ring-a-ding1959
premier cru1965
sharpie1970
stormer1978
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cvi. 650 A relike to be showed for a brauerie.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 426 Two eminent braveries, First, the Golden Vine..The other was that Golden Eagle.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden To Rdr. What fairer objects..than these painted Braveries?
e. A fine thing, a matter to boast or be proud of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > [noun] > cause or matter of pride
pridec1390
braverya1626
a1626 L. Andrewes Patterne Catechisticall Doctr. (1630) 228 In a vainglory we thinke it a braverie and a magnificent thing to sweare.
1638 J. Ford Fancies ii. 20 'Twere a bravery, Could you forget the place.
4. Mere show, ostentatious pretence. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display > more ostentatious display
flourish1598
ornament1600
braverya1627
pageantrya1646
flash1674
overbloom1880
top-dressing1884
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) ii. 17 Worth it selfe it is lost And bravery stands fort.
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 95 This is not now rather a bravery of words..than real truth.
1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 241 [They] measured counsels more by the bravery than the solidity of them.
5. A gallant, a beau; also collective gallants, grandees, chivalry. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentleman > collectively
bravery1616
gentry1619
chivalry1816
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male
gallant1388
wamfler15..
rutter1506
younkera1522
fine gentleman1575
cavalier1589
whisker1595
jinglespur1604
bravery1616
brisk1621
chevalier1630
man about town1647
man of mode1676
man of distinction1699
sprag1707
sparky1756
blood1763
swell1786
Corinthian1819
galliard1828
mondain1833
toff1851
flâneur1854
Johnny1883
silver-tail1898
knut1911
lounge lizard1918
old buster1919
Hooray Henry1959
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. iii, in Wks. I. 536 He is one of the Braueries, though he be none o' the Wits. View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. i. 87 Sitting at the Table with The braveries of the kingdom.
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) i. ii Whole Sholes of upstart Braveries.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 162 The Grandees also, and others of the Castilian Bravery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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