n. 1. Capability of endurance. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Hardship; fatigue. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]