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# boldness

«boldness» in Mova's school dictionary: **being brave and not afraid to act** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Boldness is being brave and not afraid to act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/#m1)

2) Boldness can also mean being too forward or rude, asking for more than is fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, boldness is daring to speak to a lord or princess; the speaker asks pardon for it

### examples

- I admired the boldness of the young knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/#x1)
- Please pardon my boldness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/#x2)
- Her boldness surprised the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.153/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boldness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boldness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.