Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who dares or defies; a challenger.

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

  • noun One who dares or defies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun one who dares

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Examples

  • From an actor's POV, Sam's type of characters darer, introvet and explosive amidst the normalcy are more demanding to act and it must be more satisfying in the long run.

    Me and My Two Minds - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • A darer, that one, he thought, and his heart-oppressed by so many downcast faces among the emigrants-lightened at the sight of her.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The thud of the two horses 'hooves on the soft turf, the muted creak and darer of Elric's harness and sword, were the only sounds to break the stillness of the clear winter day as the pair rode steadily, nearing the quaking, treacherous trails of the Marshes of the Mist.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The thud of the two horses 'hooves on the soft turf, the muted creak and darer of Elric's harness and sword, were the only sounds to break the stillness of the clear winter day as the pair rode steadily, nearing the quaking, treacherous trails of the Marshes of the Mist.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • As one player advances for this purpose, or "gives a dare," the opponents send out a player to tag him, when the first side immediately sends out a second player to "cover" or protect the darer by trying to tag his opponent.

    Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

  • Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would be insipid indeed; and there is a type of military character which every one feels that the race should never cease to breed, for every one is sensitive to its superiority.

    Memories and Studies William James 1876

  • Civilization, more than aught else, tends to discourage enthusiasm; and where it is pushed to the utmost degree of perfection, there will this prompter of great deeds, this darer of impossibilities and instigator of heroic actions, be most rarely found.

    The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

  • Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would be insipid indeed; and there is a type of military character which everyone feels that the race should never cease to breed, for everyone is sensitive to its superiority. "

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

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