(n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
(n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
(n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
(n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
(n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
(n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
(n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
(n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
(n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
(n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel.
(v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(3) Recently, it has been proposed that beta-adrenergic receptors of rat fat cells are neither beta 1 nor beta 2 in character but rather an 'isoreceptor,' 'hybrid,' or 'beta 3' [Br.
(4) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
(5) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
(6) One-hundred characters were derived from morphological features, physiological and biochemical activities and SEM micrographs.
(7) Diagnosis based on the character of the stridor alone is tenuous, and consideration of presentation other than the stridor is discussed in the management of these infants.
(8) The determining component of daily energy consumption is energy consumption during the working period the value of which depends on the character of working activity and duration of the working shift.
(9) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(10) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
(11) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
(12) These last specialized characters are observed, on the contrary, in species parasitic in Lagomorpha.
(13) Little deficit in total mesodermal cell number was found, though the entire mesoderm adopted the histological character proper to only some 40% of that in the normal pattern i.e.
(14) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
(15) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
(16) Some of the viruses could be differentiated from each other (especially in C. quinoa) by other characters, such as the accumulation of membranes in cell nuclei, or the type of organelle (chloroplasts, mitochondria or peroxisomes) from which multivesicular bodies developed.
(17) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
(18) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
(19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(20) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
Courage
Definition:
(n.) The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
(n.) Heart; inclination; desire; will.
(n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(2) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(3) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(4) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(5) This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah.
(6) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
(7) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(8) After Japanese troops invaded the Chinese city of Nanking (now Nanjing) in 1937, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, Hirohito said he was "deeply satisfied" by the troops' courage in quickly seizing the city.
(9) And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages.
(10) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(11) These inspiring and courageous women are up against a highly resourced state that looks after its own.
(12) Congratulating Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat on having the courage to change, a Clintonite speciality, he went on: 'Above all, let us dedicate ourselves to your region's next generation.
(13) Alicia deserves praise for courageously standing up to Trump’s attacks.
(14) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(15) They’re losing fear and they’re gaining courage, especially from the military positions he’s taken.
(16) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
(17) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(18) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(19) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(20) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.