All 5 Uses of
valor
in
All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
- So is running away, when fear proposes the safety: but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.†
Scene 1.1 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use valor.
- I have, then, sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour; and my state that way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent.†
Scene 2.5
- The great dignity that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample.†
Scene 4.3
- 'You shall demand of him whether one Captain Dumain be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the duke, what his valour, honesty, expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to corrupt him to a revolt.'†
Scene 4.3
- We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely; therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you have answered to his reputation with the duke, and to his valour: what is his honesty?†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger -- especially in battle