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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Danger" Quotes from Famous Books

... gazed at Kathlyn, who found herself suddenly filled with strange embarrassment. In times of danger sham and subterfuge have no place. Heretofore she had met Bruce as a man, to whom a glance from her eyes had told her secret. Now that the door to civilization lay but a few miles away, the old conventions dropped their obscuring mantles over her, and she felt ashamed. And ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

... said, gratefully. "I can sleep when I know you are with him. Do you think there is any danger?" ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... said to be in check when he is attacked by any Piece or Pawn, for it being a fundamental law of chess that the King can never be taken, whenever any direct attack upon him is made, he must be warned of his danger by the cry of check, and the player is then compelled either to remove his King out of check, or parry the check by interposing a man between the King and the attacking Piece, or capture the ...

— The Blue Book of Chess - Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis - of All the Recognized Openings • Howard Staunton and "Modern Authorities"

... friend! he is gone! how abruptly did I quit him! how ungratefully have I repaid his kindness! ah, whither is my reason fled! he said— I was in danger! in danger? and what then have I left to fear? what have I still left to lose? my life? oh, I were happy— too, too happy— if the moment of parting with it were ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol. I. No. 3. March 1810 • Various

... a wild cry from the crowd, but it was Sonny Boy who slipped from his high perch and, not an instant too soon, drew his friend out of the danger. ...

— Sonny Boy • Sophie Swett

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