mettle
\MET-l\
noun – Courage and fortitude. Disposition or temperament.
Origin:
Mettle was used interchangeably with the material metal until the early 1700s. Mettle continued to be used in the figurative sense of “stuff of which a person is made” even as the spellings diverged.
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