couraged

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

courage +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

couraged (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified form or amount of courage.
    • 1859, William Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
      She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Her name's Brown Molly, sir; and she'll go till she drops.
    • 1925, Andrew Herbert Dakers, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658):
      the wordy warfare of lukewarm, weak-couraged men