The word "valorous" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who performs bravely or fearlessly in a difficult situation. Example sentence: After weeks of battle, the valorous soldiers emerged victorious against their enemies.
A heart-bursting "Carrion" makes death by drowning feel valorous, almost erotic: "Oh, the heavy water, how it enfolds/The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow... ...... On their traditional set-closer, "Spirit of St Louis", Leeds-bred Noble amuses his home-town crowd by falling comically into the photo pit when trying some foot-on-the-barrier heroics.
Jonjo O'Neill's Launcelot is the fierce and valorous knight of true fable, Mariah Gale's impulsive, virginal Elaine the perfect foil, and Kirsty Woodward's arraigned Guenever, rescued from the bonfire but spurning Launcelot's final kiss, a tall and haughty convert to religious orders.
Far from being a slur, it is intended as a tribute to the valorous warrior qualities of the original Indians – the virtues on which a fierce sport prides itself most.
It's often hard to tell whether their discretion is valorous, mendacious, guilt-ridden, grandiose, or merely vain.
None of the people in the poem care anything about modesty, simplicity (they adore treasure, they count it up), or humility (they boast of their valorous deeds).
In his imagination, he is Winston Churchill, the valorous protector of his nation, the singular leader of clear, unerring vision.
The animal sports a heraldic collar and valorous scars.
Samuel Beckett's "Proust" was written after he spent a summer reading "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" twice, a valorous act, although any discussion of Proust must, by definition, pay homage to the one engulfing work.
Then a thought revives her — maybe there is someone else out there, someone better than Léon: [I]f somewhere there existed a strong, handsome man with a valorous, passionate and refined nature, a poet's soul in the form of an angel, a lyre with strings of bronze intoning elegiac nuptial songs to the heavens, why was it not possible that she might meet him some day?
Their societies, in which both men and women were able to embody the martial virtues, provided a counterpoint to Greek society, in which only men could be valorous.
I brushed them off, these valorous, in my unseemly haste of greedy living, and now must learn from them.
