Originally Posted By: Faldage
Assuming you came up with the 'courage' meaning just from context and you read it with the 'staying power' meaning that the OED offers it makes sense in a 17th century context and gets your 20th century second meaning if you think the author really intended that.

It seems to me that 'staying power' quite aptly describes my derriere !!


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