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Perilousness

noun
1.
The state of being dangerous.  Synonym: hazardousness.





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"Perilousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... not only of all other pleasures, but of the very sensibilities by which they themselves are received, and as this penalty is actually known and experienced by those indulging in them, so that the reason cannot but pronounce right respecting their perilousness, there is no palliation of the wrong choice; and the man, as utterly incapable of will,[8] is called intemperate, ...
— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Perilousness" :   hazardousness, danger, perilous


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