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Definition of Fortitudes
1. fortitude [n] - See also: fortitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortitudes
Literary usage of Fortitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Than e'er \ou felt yet ; fortune my foe's a in- fortitudes and FORTUNATES. ...
Let the twelve homes of the horoscope Be lodg'd with fortitudes and ..."
2. A Treatise on the Astrolabe: Addressed to His Son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1872)
"And these v maner be called v fortitudes of ... to a planet v fortitudes ; And
a planet in his hows is lyke a kynge in his hall, And in the high ..."
3. The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge Made by Andrew Borde, of by Andrew Boorde (1870)
"... doth shew of the fortitudes of the planètes, ... And what influence thei hath
in ma», And what fortitudes ye planètes hath in ye signes, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... occidental, combust, feral, free, and as our astrologers will, have their
fortitudes and debilities, by reason of those good and bad irradiations, ..."
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