Braved meaning

He had braved the storm last night to get her.

She explained why she was in Fayetteville and mentioned that Keaton had braved the storm to be with her.

He braved her scrutiny with a small twinkle in his eye and a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

For five years the king braved all anathemas, but about 1002 he gave up Bertha and married Constance, daughter of a certain Count William, an intriguing and ambitious woman, who made life miserable for her husband, while the court was disturbed by quarrels between the partisans of the two queens.

His courage, as well as his moderation, was again displayed during the revolution of 1830, when, as president of the parliamentary commission for the trial of the ministers of Charles X., he braved the fury of the mob and secured a sentence of imprisonment in place of the death penalty for which they clamoured.