boldness
/ˈboʊldnəs/ noun C2- The state of being bold; courage.
- presumptuousness
- The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
Plural boldnesses
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Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went up to him and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
Just at the moment when they were taking the dainty animal from the spit, they saw Edmond springing with the boldness of a chamois from rock to rock, and they fired the signal agreed upon.
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