Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hardiness

Hardiness (-di*nes) , noun

1.
Capability of endurance.
2.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. — Spenser
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. — Shakespeare
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. — Clarendon
3.
Hardship; fatigue. [Obsolete] — Spenser