Of a person: possessing courage and determination; brave, bold, resolute. In early use also as a general term of approbation: †good, worthy, noble…

In predicative use. That is of some worth or account; good, valuable; worthy, valiant, doughty; = aught, adj. 1.

Brave, valiant.

Brave, valiant, or gallant; full of prowess. Also: proud, haughty. Cf. preux chevalier, n.

Full of prowess; valorous, brave, valiant.

Possessing or endowed with prowess; valiant, brave, skilful. Also occasionally as n., with the and plural agreement: people showing prowess as a…

= prew, adj. Cf. preux chevalier, n.