Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.
- n. A source or an instance of risk or peril.
- n. Obsolete Power, especially power to harm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Power; jurisdiction; domain; hence, ability to mulct or injure: as, to come within his danger.
- n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil: as, there is no danger.
- n. Reserve; doubt; hesitation; difficulty; resistance.
- n. Chariness; sparingness; stint.
- n. Injury; harm; damage.
- n. In old forest-law, a duty paid by a tenant to a lord for leave to plow and sow in the time of pannage or mast-feeding. Also leave-silver.
- n. Synonyms Danger, Peril, Jeopardy, insecurity. Danger is the generic word, and is freely used for exposure of all degrees of seriousness: as, to be in danger of catching cold or of being killed. Peril represents a serious matter, a great and imminent danger. Jeopardy is less common; it has essentially the same meaning as peril. See risk, n.
- To put in hazard; expose to loss or injury; endanger.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
- n. obsolete Liability.
- n. obsolete Difficulty; sparingness.
- n. obsolete Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- n. obsolete A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
- n. Exposure to liable harm.
- n. An instance or cause of liable harm.
- n. Mischief.
- v. obsolete To claim liability.
- v. obsolete To imperil; to endanger.
- v. obsolete To run the risk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Authority; jurisdiction; control.
- n. obsolete Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
- n. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
- n. obsolete Difficulty; sparingness.
- n. obsolete Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- v. obsolete To endanger.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- n. the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
- n. a dangerous place
- n. a cause of pain or injury or loss
Etymologies
- Middle English daunger ("power, dominion, peril"), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum ("damage")) from Vulgar Latin *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus ("lord, master"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English daunger, power, dominion, peril, from Old French dangier, from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium, authority, power, from Latin dominium, sovereignty, from dominus, lord, master; see dem- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Madison anticipated this precise danger from Slavery, and upheld this precise grant of power in order to counteract this danger_.”
“The danger isn't the point -- _it's the fear of danger_," said Darrow.”
“There was danger to this country, danger of the avenging justice of God, in that little unimportant Popular Sovereignty question of Judge Douglas.”
“Cornplanter, their most experienced warrior, should not leave them; but that a sufficient deputation, for which they had obtained volunteers, should accompany Col. Proctor, at the same time advising him of the danger, admonishing him to proceed with caution; "_to reach his neck over the land, and take in all the light he could, that would show him his danger_.”
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“That the Government was however determined, and so were all the Departments, that this should never happen again; no doubt the danger from the Socialists was great, all over the world; that _that_ was the _real danger_, and that they would readily make another attempt like the fearful one in June (the result of which for three days was uncertain), but that they had not the power; that he was continually impressing upon all his friends in France the necessity of supporting _whatever_ form of Government there was _whose object_ was the _maintenance of order_, and to unite "contre cet ennemi commun.”
“Contrariwise, those private individuals who expose themselves to danger without any legitimate excuse run great risk of tempting God and losing His grace; since it is written that _he that loveth danger_ (still more he that seeketh it) _shall perish in it_." [”
“The term "danger play" is less frequently found in the literature; it refers to a manoeuvre that guards against an unlikely distribution but loses a vital trick if the lie of cards is more or less normal.”
“But putting other people in danger is an entirely different matter.”
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“He feels that he is in danger from the animal/men and from Dr. Moreau himself and does not know where to turn.”
“Even while dying, Apophis is still able to exercise his cunning as gaining refuge on Earth puts Earth in danger from the system lords, as they try to get Apophis back.”
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D
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Tweets
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madmouth once upon a time, it was daunger. Jun 12, 2009
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moore4th it is dangers out side Feb 15, 2007
moore4th In harms way.
Feb 15, 2007
moore4th He said, ''danger was near''. Feb 15, 2007