Danger
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| '''Danger''' means being at [[risk]] or exposure to liable [[harm]]. | '''Danger''' means being at [[risk]] or exposure to liable [[harm]]. | ||
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Danger means being at risk or exposure to liable harm.
Etymology
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).
Namesakes
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
See also
- Cautionary tale
- Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
- Adrenaline
- Fear
- Thrill seeker
- Hazard
- Peril
- Menace
- Threat
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