dangerest
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dangerest
- (rare) superlative form of dangerous: most dangerous
- 1536, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 11, published 1888, page 238:
- All this insurrection rises of persons of no reputation; “it is the dangerest insurrection that hath been seen.”
- 1905, Evelyn Everett-Green, “XXII An Act of Vengeance”, in The Secret of Wold Hall, page 244:
- “Is there danger for those who go down?” she asked. ¶ “Danger! ’Tis the dangerest task as they can set themselves to.”
- 1914, State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division--Fourth Department, quoting Henry J. Walz, John Knapczyk against George Badner, page 135, line 406:
- It is because they are all placed against the wall to keep the workmen from getting back of it. The back is the dangerest part, where the agitator comes up against the back. That is done to keep workmen away from the back of the machine. They don't consider they will reach from the front to the back, because it is quite a reach to get in.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dangerest.