Gandhi was not born great. He was a blundering boy, a mediocre student, a poor lawyer, an ordinary individual until he remade himself. He was a self-remade man. He had faith in himself. But above all, he had a deep, touching faith in the peasants, miners, labourers, and the unformed men and women whom he drew into his work. He fed them all an elixir of self-confidence and self-respect and turned weakness into strength, fear into fearlessness.

The word ‘leonine’ in the passage means

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