How to pronounce“fortitude”in English
if you're pregnant without being married, you could be stoned and thrown outside the city. So she's undertaking this huge risk. And where does she get that strength? Where does she get that
fortitude to choose this? And I think that part of the books is they're trying to give an account of
that. That is, she reads and that inwardness, that wild refuge from the world. That's what
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Definitions of “fortitude”
Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
“I am able now (me thinkes) / (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele) / To endure more Miſeries, […]”
Physical strength.
“The Turke with moſt mighty preparation makes for Cipres. Othello, the fortitude of the place, is beſt knowne to you, […]”