fortitude

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

   “I am able now (me thinkes) / (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele) / To endure more Miſeries, […]”

   “I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.”

   “She [the ship] may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.”

   “Mitt Romney […] charges that [Barack] Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."”

   “The proper fans might also expend time—about twenty hours—trying to visit every Tube station as quickly as possible. […] But to visit every station in record time—which people have been attempting since at least 1960—requires real fortitude. You must get up before dawn, you must drink or eat almost nothing, so niggardly is the Underground with toilet provision.”

2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Physical strength.

   “The Turke with moſt mighty preparation makes for Cipres. Othello, the fortitude of the place, is beſt knowne to you, […]”

   “Hey day! VVhat are all the VVomen of my Family abroad? Is not my Wife come home? Nor my Siſter, nor my Daughter? […] Mercy on us, what can be the meaning of it? Sure the Moon is in all her Fortitudes; […]”