adventuring
adventuring is the present participle and gerund of adventure.
Meaning of adventure
Verb
adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)
- To risk oneself.
- O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]1509 December 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Sebastian Brant], translated by Alexander Barclay, “Of Folysshe Exchanges Scorsyngꝭ ⁊ Ꝑmutacions”, in […] The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde […], London: […]...
- Synonyms:
- venture
- To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
- [A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]c. 1571, Edmund Campion, edited by A[lphonsus] F[ranciscus] Vossen, Two Bokes of the Histories of Ireland […], Assen, Drenthe: Van Gorcum & Comp N.V. […], published 1963, →OCLC, page 28
- Synonyms:
- venture
- To try the chance; to take the risk.
- What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Synonyms:
- venture
- To dare to say or utter.
- But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!1802 June 22, [James Cheetham], “Introduction”, in A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq., Vice-President of the United States, New York, N.Y.: […] Denniston & Cheetham, […], →OCLC, page...
- Synonyms:
- venture
- To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie: […].”, in Wyllyam...
- Synonyms:
- venture
- To risk or hazard; jeopard.
- Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?c. 1513 (date written), Thomas More, “The History of King Richard the Thirde (Vnfinished) […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London...
- Synonyms:
- venture
Noun
adventuring (plural adventurings)
- adventure
- Shawna has grown up into a sort of Outward Bound explorer of the erotic wilderness, whose adventurings — recounted on a widely read blog — include a stint working at “the Lusty Lady, a peep show in North Beach that recently became the nation’s first worker-owned strip club.”2007 June 24, David Leavitt, “Still More Tales of the City”, in New York Times
Forms of adventuring
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Questions about adventuring
- What does adventuring mean?
- Adventuring means adventure.
- What is adventuring the present participle and gerund of?
- Adventuring is the present participle and gerund of adventure.
- What part of speech is adventuring?
- Adventuring is a noun.
- What is the plural of adventuring?
- The plural of adventuring is adventurings.
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