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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Braving \Brav"ing\, n.
A bravado; a boast.
With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings.
--Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brave \Brave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Braved} (br[=a]vd); p. pr &
vb n. {Braving}.]
1. To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at
defiance; to defy; to dare.
These I can brave, but those I can not bear.
--Dryden.
2. To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.]
Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast
braved meny men; brave not me I'll neither be faced
or braved. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
braving
n : taking the bull by the horns [syn: {confronting}, {coping
with}, {grappling}, {tackling}]
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