All 3 Uses
fortitude
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
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- There was certainly nothing in his outer case to suggest the fierceness and fortitude and fire of the man, and yet even the thickblooded Mexican half-breeds knew his quality at once.†
Part 1 *fortitude = strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- But he knew his Indians, and that when once they had collectively made up their pueblo mind ...Moreover, he was a proud old Spaniard, and had a certain fortitude lodged in his well-nourished body.†
Part 3
- He had, indeed, for years, directed the thoughts of the young priests whom he instructed to the fortitude and devotion of those first missionaries, the Spanish friars; declaring that his own life, when he first came to New Mexico, was one of ease and comfort compared with theirs.†
Part 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(fortitude) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)