Meaning

noun the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury

noun a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

noun a cause of pain or injury or loss

originFrom 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 *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

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