All 3 Uses
valor
in
Pericles's Funeral Oration
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- There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valor they will have handed down from generation to generation, and we have received from them a free state.†
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- For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity.†
- For even those who come short in other ways may justly plead the valor with which they have fought for their country; they have blotted out the evil with the good, and have benefited the state more by their public services than they have injured her by their private actions.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(valor) exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger -- especially in battle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)