Crossword clues for dangerousness
dangerousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dangerous \Dan"ger*ous\, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.]
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Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous.
--Shak.It is dangerous to assert a negative.
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Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods.
--Milton. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.]
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Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
--Chaucer. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] ``Of his speech dangerous.''
--Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being dangerous.
WordNet
n. the quality of not being safe [ant: safeness]
Usage examples of "dangerousness".
Raffaele Garofalo published in the Neapolitan Journal of Philosophy and Literature an essay on criminality, in which he declared that the dangerousness of the criminal was the criterion by which society should measure the function of its defense against the disease of crime.
The Catholic Church had from the beginning a very clear consciousness of the dangerousness of many New Testament writings, in fact she made a virtue of necessity in so far as she set up a theory to prove the unavoidableness of this danger.
Irascible Mason, known up and down the Churs of Stroud, on occasions like this, as a lightning Shin-Kicker, has actually begun shuffling to seek some purchase upon the gleaming floor, when he belatedly recognizes the notorious Calvert agent Captain Dasp, to smoak whose Dangerousness even those of an Idiocy far more advanc'd than Mason's require but an anxious few seconds.
Rotten animal, he thought, despising horses for their constant trickeries and treacheries and ill-tempered dangerousness.
He had no desire to have a vibroblade between his ribs, and there was no doubt as to the uncontrolled dangerousness of his hysterical opponent.