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noun

Danger n.

1.

Authority; jurisdiction; control. (Obs.) "In dangerhad he... the young girls."

2.

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. (Obs.) See In one's danger, below. "You stand within his danger, do you not?" "Covetousness of gains hath brought (them) in dangerof this statute."

3.

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

4.

Difficulty; sparingness. (Obs.)

5.

Coyness; disdainful behavior. (Obs.)

In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. (Obs.) This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger." "Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not."

To do danger, to cause danger. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

verb

Danger v. t. To endanger. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Danger'

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"Danger" Quotes from Famous Books

... a long time to make an army. But his duty as a soldier forbade him to oppose his superiors; the poor fellow could not proclaim his distrust of his army in public."(9) Thoughtful observers at Washington felt danger in the air, both military ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... an hour, not thinking of the danger, but consumed with impatience. Officers passed near them talking, but they could catch only scraps, not enough for their purpose. A set of signals was sent up again and was answered duly from the same point to the east of the Gap. But after long waiting, they ...

— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler

... began enquiring about horses, and on learning that they were scarce, he sent off his soldiers with orders to seize all they could find in the name of the Emperor. The men departed, and he remained alone with the prisoners. There was no danger of an attempt at escape. In the heart of the Czar's immense dominions, whither could a fugitive betake himself without a certainty of being overtaken, or of dying from hunger before ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various

... her some message from the absent one! She had never felt like this before, she had never felt so restless, so uneasy. It was impossible to think of sleep; she would pray still longer. Perhaps the boy needed her prayers; perhaps he was in danger, danger of body, danger of soul, and needed her help. Her rosary in her fingers, she knelt by the window praying, praying, while the moonbeams danced and played around the kneeling figure. Perhaps it was just as well they could not speak and tell her what they saw out there upon the river. Perhaps ...

— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams

... soul. Mystics of all time have tried to express it, likening it to peals of faery bells, the singing of enchanted birds, the clanging of silver cymbals, the organ voices of wind and water bent together—but in vain, in vain. Perhaps in this there is a danger, for the true is realized in being and not in perception. The gods are ourselves beyond the changes of time which harass and vex us here. They do not demand adoration but an equal will to bind us consciously in unity with ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

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