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adjective

Daring adj. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

verb

Dare v. t. (past & past part. dared; pres. part. daring)

1.

To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. "What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?" "To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes."

2.

To challenge; to provoke; to defy. "Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover."

Dare v. i. (past durst or dared; past part. dared; pres. part. daring) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none." "Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not." "Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion." "The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why." Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. "The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead)." "You know one dare not discover you." "The fellow dares not deceive me." "Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep." Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.

noun

Daring n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

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"Daring" Quotes from Famous Books

... existence as a city from remote times to the present day. Its chief local Saint—for what Italian town does not boast a special patron?—is Sant' Antonio, whose most famous feat is said to have been the administering of a severe drubbing to Sicardo, Duke of Benevento, for daring to interfere with the liberties of his city in the ninth century. It would appear from the legend that all arguments as to ancient rights, the quality of mercy and the honour of keeping faith having been vainly exhausted ...

— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... of many who practise Birth Control lies in not daring to preach what they practise. What is the secret of the hypocrisy of the well-to-do, who are willing to contribute generously to charities and philanthropies, who spend thousands annually in the upkeep and sustenance ...

— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

... from what it once had been in the United States; when they fully realized their intolerable condition compared with that of white men, who were clamoring for liberty and equality, there rankled in the bosom of slaves that insurrectionary passion productive of the daring uprisings which made the chances for the enlightenment of colored people poorer than they had ever been in the history of ...

— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson

... was like the lava flood That boils in AEtna's breast of flame. I cannot prate in puling strain Of Ladye-love, and Beauty's chain: If changing cheek, and scorching vein,[ef] Lips taught to writhe, but not complain, If bursting heart, and maddening brain, And daring deed, and vengeful steel, And all that I have felt, and feel, Betoken love—that love was mine, 1110 And shown by many a bitter sign. 'Tis true, I could not whine nor sigh, I knew but to obtain or die. I die—but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. ...

— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... betraying her embarrassment, not daring, in Lupin's presence, to condemn the line of life which Gilbert had selected and yet unable to speak in favour ...

— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc

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