Daring vs. Courage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Daring and Courage
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Daring
(of a person or action) adventurous or audaciously bold
A daring crime
Courage
Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valour is courage or bravery, especially in battle.
Daring
Adventurous courage
The daring of the players brings fortune or ruin
Courage
The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery
She called on all her courage to face the ordeal
Daring
Willing to take or seek out risks; bold and venturesome.
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Courage
The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
Daring
Involving great risk or danger
A daring rescue.
Courage
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
Daring
Audacious bravery; boldness.
Courage
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Daring
Present participle of dare
Courage
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
Daring
Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
Courage
(obsolete) To encourage.
Daring
Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
Courage
The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
So priketh hem nature in here corages.
My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
Daring
Racy; sexually provocative.
Courage
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
I'd such a courage to do him good.
Daring
Boldness.
Courage
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,I have no relish of them.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.
Daring
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
Courage
To inspire with courage; to encourage.
Paul writeth unto Timothy . . . to courage him.
Daring
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.
Courage
A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear
Daring
A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy;
He could never refuse a dare
Daring
The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger;
The proposal required great boldness
Daring
Disposed to venture or take risks;
Audacious visions of the total conquest of space
An audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
The most daring of contemporary fiction writers
A venturesome investor
A venturous spirit
Daring
Radically new or original;
An avant-garde theater piece
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