Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without danger or risk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Free from danger.

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  • adjective Without danger.

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Examples

  • The philosopher (saith he) teacheth a disputative virtue, but I do an active: his virtue is excellent in the dangerless academy of Plato, but mine showeth forth her honourable face in the battles of Marathon,

    English literary criticism Various

  • To be "unassailable" -- to exchange the soul of a Viking for that of a New Yorker, that of the quick pike for that of the lazy carp whose fat back grows moss covered in a dangerless pond -- that must never become the wish of a German.

    New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

  • His virtue is excellent in the dangerless Academy of Plato, but mine showeth forth her honorable face in the battles of Marathon, Pharsalia, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

    The Defense of Poesy 1909

  • The dove seems still to be escaping from something that pursues -- afraid of enemies even in the dangerless solitudes where the old forests repose in primeval peace.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • But the defiance is cut short by a blow like the kick of a horse, that lands fairly on the eye-socket with a cracking concussion that can be heard above the tumult, and is followed by a roar of delight from the male vermin, who see all the joys before them of battle unshared and dangerless -- the joys bystanders feel in foemen worthy of each other's steel, and open to be made the subject of wagers.

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

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