Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unduly or imprudently bold; foolhardy; imprudently rash.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of overdare.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word overdaring.

Examples

  • Viola dressed carefully for dinner in a pale blue silk evening gown, fashionably high-waisted and low at the bosom, but neither overdaring nor dowdily demure.

    No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

  • Toutsignant, his insecure and overdaring young rival; who was bound to cut trade, and let calculation take care of itself, sat on the opposite side of the room, and, bantering with him, the shrewd _habitants_, Bourdon and Desrochers, who were to profit by his theory of an advance in rye.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • To repair the kitchen stove on a day when fire was in the ascendancy might cause a conflagration, and to go to law on the day when water is the controlling element is equally foolish, for the tendency of water is to fall, and this may be the fate of the overdaring litigant.

    The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915

  • My mood was equal to overdaring, and all because of Patsy Dale.

    A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

  • "Of a truth," said he, "I relinquish my overdaring and my pride in craving thy mercy; and unless I have time to commit myself to Heaven for my sins, and to talk with a priest, thy mercy will avail me little."

    The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889

  • A little of the early mannerism remains: but those overdaring strokes of imaginative diction, those epithets jarringly bold or familiar, which we find in the volumes of 1817 and 1818, have here given place to the secure and lucid touches of masterly art.

    Notes 1884

  • "Of a truth," said he, "I relinquish my overdaring and my pride in craving thy mercy; and unless I have time to commit myself to Heaven for my sins, and to talk with a priest, thy mercy will avail me little."

    The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853

  • "Of a truth," said he, "I relinquish my overdaring and my pride, and crave thy mercy; and unless I have time to commit myself to Heaven for my sins, and to talk with a priest, thy mercy will avail me little."

    The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • "Of a truth," said he, "I relinquish my overdaring and my pride, and crave thy mercy; and unless I have time to commit myself to Heaven for my sins, and to talk with a priest, thy mercy will avail me little."

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.