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noun 
  1. (obsolete) Able to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. See In one's danger, below.
"You stand within his , do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)
  1. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
  2. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
  3. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
  4. Exposure to liable harm.
"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (Hazlitt, Table talk).
  1. An instance or cause of liable harm.
"Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).
  1. Mischief.
"We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).
Translations: 
  • Dutch: gevaar
verb 
  1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
  2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
  3. (obsolete) To run the risk.
Translations: 
  • French: danger (3)
  • German: Gefahr (3)
  • Italian: pericolo
Etymology: From Latin dominium through Middle English daunger and Anglo-French dangier


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