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Webster 1913 Edition


Venturous

Ven′tur-ous

,
Adj.
[Aphetic form of OE.
aventurous
. See
Adventurous
,
Venture
,
Noun.
]
Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous;
as, a
venturous
soldier
.
Spenser.
This said, he paused not, but with
venturous
arm
He plucked, he tasted.
Milton.
Ven′tur-ous-ly
,
adv.
Ven′tur-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Venturous

VEN'TUROUS

,
Adj.
Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; intrepid; adventurous; as a venturous soldier.
With vent'rous arm he pluck'd, he tasted.

Definition 2024


venturous

venturous

English

Adjective

venturous (comparative more venturous, superlative most venturous)

  1. Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
    • 1666, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim`s Progress:
      ...he shewed me a stately palace, and how the people were clad in gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous man and cut his way through the armed men that stood in the door to keep him out, and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal glory.

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