Both Uses
fortitude
in
This I Believe II
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- Opinions can be picked up cheap in the marketplace, while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.†
Chpt Intr. *fortitude = strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- From downsizing the family home to allowing a widower preacher to "go Dutch" with her at the Olive Garden on occasion, my mother has put one foot in front of the other with grace and fortitude.†
Chpt 71
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)