HARDINESS

Har″di‐ness (–dĭ‐nĕs), n. 1. 1. Capability of endurance.
2. 2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon. 3. 3. Hardship; fatigue. Spenser.