Fortitude meaning
courage
Courage (also called bravery or valor) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery, especially in battle.
Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, h ...
or bravery is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. It is one of the four cardinal virtues that Aristotle proposed. Fortitude is the most important virtue since other virtue cannot be practiced without it.
Fortitude may also refer to:
Ships
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HMS ''Fortitude'', any one of several Royal Navy ships and installations
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HMS ''Fortitude'' (1780), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1780
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HMS ''Cumberland'' (1807) was launched as a 74-gun third rate; in 1833 she became the prison hulk HMS ''Fortitude''
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''Fortitude'' (ship), a sailing ship that carried free immigrants to Australia in 1849
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ST ''Fortitude'', an Admiralty tugboat in service from 1947 to 1962
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USS ''Fortitude'' (AMc-81), a 1941 United States ''Accentor''-class minesweeper
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''Fortitude'' (1780 EIC ship), a merchant vessel built in 1780 on the River Thames
Places
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Fortitude Valley, Queensland, a section of Brisbane
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Fortitude Valley railway station
Fortitude Valley railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. Located beneath the Valley Metro complex, it serves the central Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley. The station is one of four inner city stations t ...
, located beneath the Valley Metro complex
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Electoral district of Fortitude Valley, a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Fortitude'' (Botticelli), a 1470 painting
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''Fortitude'' (play), a 1968 short work by Kurt Vonnegut
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''Fortitude'' (TV series), a 2015 British drama television series
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''Fortitude'' (King), a public artwork by artist American James King
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Patience and Fortitude
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, commonly known as the Main Branch, 42nd Street Library or the New York Public Library, is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. T ...
'', the lion sculptures flanking the entrance to the Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library
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''Fortitude'' (album), a 2021 album by Gojira
* ''Fortitude'', a 2012 album by
Ian Cooke
* ''Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage'', a 2020 non-fiction book by
Dan Crenshaw
Sports
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Fortitude Valley Diehards, an Australian rugby league football club
Other uses
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Operation ''Fortitude'', a World War II deception operation
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United Patriots Front
The United Patriots Front (UPF) was an Australian far-right extremist group that opposed immigration, multiculturalism and the religion of Islam. Formed in 2015, the group has been largely dormant since their Facebook page was deleted follow ...
, otherwise known as Fortitude, an Australian populist far-right street protest movement and Facebook group
See also
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Fortitudo (disambiguation)
Fortitudo means courage or fortitude. It may also refer to:
* Fortitudo (planet), also known Xi Aquilae b
* Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S., a sports society in Rome, formerly named "Fortitudo"
* Cosenza Calcio 1914, soccer team in Cosenza formerly nam ...
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