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Venture   /vˈɛntʃər/   Listen
noun
Venture  n.  
1.
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. "I, in this venture, double gains pursue."
2.
An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
3.
The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade. "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted."
At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. "A certain man drew a bow at a venture." "A bargain at a venture made." Note: The phrase at a venture was originally at aventure, that is, at adventure.



verb
Venture  v. t.  
1.
To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. "I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it."
2.
To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
3.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust. (R.) " A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse."



Venture  v. i.  (past & past part. ventured; pres. part. venturing)  
1.
To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
2.
To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances. "Who freights a ship to venture on the seas."
To venture at, or To venture on or To venture upon, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. "When I venture at the comic style."






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"Venture" Quotes from Famous Books



... been escaped became manifest. At the distance of barely a mile and a half from the corvette lay a low island, well wooded, and fringed with rocks along its entire extent. A few people lived on it, some of whom approached the vessel in a canoe, but none of them would venture on board. Duperrey had to give up all thoughts of visiting the island, which received the name of Clermont-Tonnerre. On all sides the waves broke violently on the rocks, and he could do no more than coast it from end to ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... rod has been needful, and the desire of my heart is, that it may be sanctified to me and mine. My dear mother continues ill, and much harassed by the enemy. O! for faith to take hold upon the Saviour: through Him we tread down our foes. I can venture upon his atoning blood. How vast my obligations, and how unprofitable my services, language fails to tell.—Mr. Bourne, an old friend of my honoured father, came and conversed awhile with us on the things pertaining to the Kingdom; then gave out a verse or two and prayed. On leaving, he ...
— Religion in Earnest - A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York • John Lyth

... Cornell 6 to 0, in 1895, at Ithaca. That night in the course of the celebration Parke uncovered everything he had in the way of entertainment and gave an exhibition of his famous dance, so aptly named the 'dance du venture,' by that enthusiastic Lafayette alumnus, ...
— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards

... Scripture, on the other hand, as unequivocally assures us that GOD is good, or rather that He is very Goodness. We are convinced, (in Mr. Wilson's words,) "that all shall be equitably dealt with according to their opportunities." (p. 154.) Moreover, he would be a rash Divine who should venture to adopt the opinion so strenuously disclaimed by Bp. Butler, "that none can have the benefit of the general Redemption, but such as have the advantage of being made acquainted with it in the present life[83]." ... How, in the meantime, speculative difficulties ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... generation.[427] That many plants when thus propagated are sterile there can be no doubt, but whether the long continuance of this form of propagation is the actual cause of their sterility, I will not venture, from the want of sufficient evidence, to express ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin


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