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usually uncountable, plural boldnesses
The state of being bold; courage. quotations examples
Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
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(typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes. examples