happy warrior

noun

: one who is undaunted by difficulties : crusader

the happy warrior who … was to fight for all the revolution had stood for

—Van Wyck Brooks

Word History

Etymology

so called from the use of the term in Character of the Happy Warrior (1807), poem by William Wordsworth †1850 English poet

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