dangerlessadj.adv.
/ˈdeɪndʒəlɪs/ Now rare.
a. Without danger; free from danger.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or secure
sickerc897
safec1325
surec1330
safea1393
sover1396
traistya1400
exempta1420
undangeredc1460
surec1475
cocksurea1529
sound1535
jeopardless1549
dangerless?1555
secure1572
secure1576
defensible1581
unobnoxious?1609
unendangereda1658
rug1705
anchored1878
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or free from risk
sure?1473
safe?1545
dangerless?1555
canny1592
peril-lessa1618
secure1617
unperilous1621
unhazardous1683
riskless1822
no-risk1932
?1555 J. Bradford Exhort. carienge Chrystes Crosse iii. 31 We..shall be daungerles in such felicite and ioy.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 69 For the better and more daungerlesse performing therof.
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 180 One of his wonted fits of dangerlesse fear.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 371 Nor dangerless To the English was the fight.
1882 C. F. Woolson Anne 361 It is the long monotony of dangerless days that tries the spirit hardest.
b. as adv. Without danger; †without damage or harm (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adverb] > without suffering harm
dangerlessc1440
sincerely1607
unmolestedly1641
innocuously1650
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > free from harm or damage
unwoundedOE
scathelessc1175
skerea1225
unhurta1225
harmlessc1290
soundc1290
unshent1303
wella1325
quartc1330
untouchedc1400
inviolatea1420
unscathed1425
dangerlessc1440
unshendc1440
undefiledc1460
unhurted1483
hailscarta1522
undefaced1537
unpairedc1540
uncloyeda1560
undamnified1576
undemnified1576
uninjured1578
unfoiled1579
salamander-like1593
unvulnered1613
undamaged1648
invulneratea1680
sincere1700
the world > action or operation > safety > [adverb] > without danger or risk
safelya1393
dangerless1596
c1440 Generydes 4567 For all that he skapid daungerles.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxvii. 283 Howbeit Burrough did therein, not Dangerles, preuaile.
1633 Lord Roberts Prelim. Verses in P. Fletcher Purple Island sig. ¶¶2v Where all may dangerlesse obtain..cheapest, greatest gain.
Derivatives
ˈdangerlessness n. freedom from danger.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm
underingnessa1300
unnoyingnessa1500
unhurtfulness1549
harmlessness1596
safeness1607
inoffensiveness1641
innocuousness1644
innocency1665
innoxiousness1667
safety1689
undangerousness1817
innocence1828
dangerlessnessa1834
innocuity1855
uninjuriousness1860
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 133 The dangerlessness—τὸ ἀκίνδυνον.
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