Har″di‐ness (–dĭ‐nĕs), n. 1. Capability of endurance.
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother. Shak.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3. Hardship; fatigue. Spenser.