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doughty
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Definition:brave; valiant, fearless
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the narrow seas which divided England from the Low Countries could just as easily be crossed in the opposite direction by doughty Spaniards shouting 'Kill, kill, kill!'
Antonia Fraser. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, p.4 (1996)
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Ga. Good. Who is that?
M. Mery. Roister Doister that doughtie kite.
C. Custance. Fye, I can scarce abide ye shoulde his name recite.
Nicholas Udall. Roister Doister (1553)
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With thinking on the booties, Dol, brought in
Daily by their small parties. This dear hour,
A doughty don is taken with my Dol;
And thou mayst make his ransom what thou wilt,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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And Ethelred, who was by nature of a doughty heart, and who was now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, Edgar Allen Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher
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