\Hard"di*hood\, n. [Hardy + -hood.]
Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind;
bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

      A bound of graceful hardihood.           --Wordsworth.

      It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to
      iniquity.                                --Buckminster.

Syn: Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness;
     audacity; effrontery; impudence.