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dangerless, a. (and adv.) Now rare.|ˈdeɪndʒəlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
Without danger; free from danger.
a1568Coverdale Carrying Christ's Cross iii, We..shall be dangerles in such felicite and ioy. 1581Mulcaster Positions xv. (1887) 69 For the better and more daungerlesse performing therof. 1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 379 One of his wonted Fits of dangerless fear. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 371 Nor dangerless To the English was the fight. 1882Woolson Anne 361 It is the long monotony of dangerless days that tries the spirit hardest.
b. as adv. Without danger; † without damage or harm (obs.).
c1440Generydes 4567 For all that he skapid daungerles. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxvi. (1612) 281 Howbeit Burrough did therein, not Dangerles, preuaile. 1633L. Roberts Prelim. V. to P. Fletcher's Purple Isl., Where all may dangerlesse obtain..cheapest, greatest gain.
Hence ˈdangerlessness, freedom from danger.
1818Coleridge in Rem. (1836) I. 133 The dangerlessness—τὸ ἀκίνδυνον. |