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Daring   /dˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Daring

adjective
1.
Disposed to venture or take risks.  Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous.  "An audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas" , "The most daring of contemporary fiction writers" , "A venturesome investor" , "A venturous spirit"
2.
Radically new or original.  Synonym: avant-garde.
noun
1.
A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.  Synonym: dare.
2.
The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.  Synonyms: boldness, hardihood, hardiness.  "The plan required great hardiness of heart"  Antonym: timidity.


Dare

verb
1.
Take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission.  Synonyms: make bold, presume.
2.
To be courageous enough to try or do something.  "She dares to dress differently from the others"
3.
Challenge.  Synonym: defy.



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"Daring" Quotes from Famous Books



... led me back to the hunter's cabin, to the miner's shack on whose rough-hewn walls the fire-light flickered in a kind of silent music. It set me once again in the atmosphere of daring and filled me with the spirit of ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... It never reached the ears of the reporters, and did not get into the papers. But the journals gave a good deal of space to the affair, and hinted that it was what the French call "un crime passional." Still, no paper was daring enough to hint at Giles and his presumed connection with the tragedy. It was merely stated that he had been engaged to the deceased girl, and felt her death so deeply, as was natural, that he had taken to his bed. Of course, this ...
— A Coin of Edward VII - A Detective Story • Fergus Hume
... postoli is in great danger if the ball has wounded the intestines, but if not they answer for his recovery. His fate will be known tomorrow. He now lies at the lord chamberlain's, not daring to have himself carried to his apartments at the palace. The king has been to see him, and the general who was present told his majesty that the only thing that saved your life was your threat to aim at Branicki's ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... I answered; "they shut the door in my face—Babet is in pain and in tears." We gazed at one another, not daring to utter a word. We listened in agony, without taking our eyes off Babet's window, endeavouring to see through the little white curtains. My uncle, who was trembling, stood still, with both his hands resting heavily on his walking-stick; ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... of Derne, in 1805, by General Eaton, at the head of nine Americans, forty Greeks, and a motley array of Turks and Arabs, was one of those feats of hardihood and daring which have in all ages attracted the admiration of the multitude. The higher and holier heroism of Christian self-denial and sacrifice, in the humble walks of private duty, is seldom ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier


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