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anguish
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?ng?-gw?sh, IPA(key): /?æ?.?w??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
Noun
anguish (countable and uncountable, plural anguishes)
- Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
- So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
- 1595/96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Act V, sc. 1:
- Is there no play,
- To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Book I, LIII:
- Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint,
- Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night
- In secret anguish and unpittied plaint,
- Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 6:9:
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern, "Cinyras and Myrrha":
- There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid,
- In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder, A Poem in Two Books, Book I:
- May I the sacred pleasures know
- Of strictest amity, nor ever want
- A friend with whom I mutually may share
- Gladness and anguish ...
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 18:
- She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, The Leaves of Grass, "Old War-Dreams":
- In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
- Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable
- look,)
- Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,
- I dream, I dream, I dream.
- Synonyms: agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment; see also Thesaurus:agony
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).
Verb
anguish (third-person singular simple present anguishes, present participle anguishing, simple past and past participle anguished)
- (intransitive) To suffer pain.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
Translations
References
Further reading
- anguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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danger
English
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 *domin?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English fr?cennes.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?de?n.d??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?de?nd??/
- Hyphenation: dan?ger
- Rhymes: -e?nd??(?)
Noun
danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)
- Exposure to likely harm; peril.
- 1821-1822, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
- 1821-1822, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk
- An instance or cause of likely harm.
- September 1, 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech
- Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
- September 1, 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
- (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson More's Utopia
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson More's Utopia
- (obsolete) Liability.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
- (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:danger
Derived terms
- danger signal
- kicking in danger
Translations
Verb
danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)
- (obsolete) To claim liability.
- (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
- (obsolete) To run the risk.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:danger.
Related terms
- dangerous
- at danger
- SPAD
- dungeon
- domain
- dame
- endanger
References
- Oxford English Dictionary
Anagrams
- Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged
French
Etymology
From Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domni?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??.?e/
Noun
danger m (plural dangers)
- danger
- jeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)
Derived terms
- danger public
- dangereux
- en danger
- hors de danger
- non-assistance à personne en danger
Further reading
- “danger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- de rang, grande
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