The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COURAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result COURAGE
- Bottle for Brecht's mother
- Prison housing belonging to US brewery once
- Gallantry about data that shouldn’t be asked of us ladies?
- Bottle, or something Dutchman can get from one
- Bottle about as old as we are . . . . .
- Written in pen, The Independent’s spunk
- Bottle’s about as old as we are
- Pluck power from uprising madness
- Bottle company prompt, coming about midday
- Protective frame around our stomach
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What does COURAGE mean?
COURAGE noun- The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
- The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal.
- To encourage.