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noun
- boldness or determination in facing great danger, especially in battle; heroic courage; bravery: a medal for valor.
noun
- courage or bravery, esp in battle
chiefly British English spelling of valor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.
c.1300, “value, worth,” from Old French valour “strength, value, valor,” from Late Latin valorem (nominative valor) “value, worth,” from stem of Latin valere “be worth, be strong” (see valiant). The meaning “courage” is first recorded 1580s, from Italian valore, from the same Late Latin word. (The Middle English word also had a sense of “worth or worthiness in respect of manly qualities”).
see discretion is the better part of valor.