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English Dictionary: daring	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
daring adj disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" Synonym(s): audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece" Synonym(s): avant-garde, daring n a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare" Synonym(s): dare, daring the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" Synonym(s): boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood Antonym(s): timidity, timorousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daring \Dar"ing\, n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daring \Dar"ing\, a. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- {Dar"ingly}, adv. -- {Dar"ingness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dare \Dare\, v. i. [imp. {Durst}or {Dared}; p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada[a3]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] 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. --Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay. Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. --Jowett (Thu[?]yd.). 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. --Skeat. The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman. You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden. The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak. Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl. Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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? --Bagehot. To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. --The Century. 2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy. Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden.