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ˈventuresome, a.
Also 7, 9 dial., venter-.
[f. venture n. or v. + -some.]
1. Of persons: Disposed or ready to venture or take risks; bold, daring; = venturous a. 1.
1677Gilpin Demonol. i. xviii. 155 Even as courage whetted on and enraged, makes a Man ventersome beyond the due bounds of prudence, or safety. 1698Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 134 Does he not make his Hero more Rash than Wise, and more Venturesome than Ambitious? 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1811) II. 395 We should even in trifles avoid every circumstance which can tend to make girls venturesome. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. 214 He was most venturesome in his schemes for action. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day xxix. (ed. 3) 262 Some persons..are sufficiently venturesome to visit Billingsgate when at the high-tide of business.
2. Of the nature of, characterized by, or involving risk; hazardous, risky.
1661in Phœnix (1721) I. 84 These two last Opinions of the Father, which seem the most bold and venturesome of all the rest. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. lii. 391 It must ever redound unto the honour of his memory, that bold and venturesome act of his. 1755Johnson, Hazardable, venturesome; liable to chance. 1849Dana Geol. ix. (1850) 451 From the sunny plain above, the streamlet made the venturesome descent. 1885Public Opin. 9 Jan. 28/2 General Stewart has returned safely from his venturesome ride across the desert.
Hence ˈventuresomely adv., ˈventuresomeness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), *Venturesomly, daringly. 1882Sat. Rev. LIV. 597 To a butterfly also, may we venturesomely compare this strange..tome of weird verse. 1883Evang. Mag. Aug. 343 The rocks toasted almost enough to blister the hand that should venturesomely touch them.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Fool Hardiness, Rashness, Temerity, a Thoughtless *Venturesomness. 1740Richardson Pamela I. 236 She seem'd full of Wonder at my Resolution and Venturesomeness. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 16 Did ever one hear of such venturesomeness? 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. iii. xxiv, A handsome girl, whose lively venturesomeness of talk has the effect of wit. |