Adventure vs Courage - What's the difference?
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The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
* Macaulay
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
* 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]
* 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]
* 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
(obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
* Milton
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
* Berners
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
* Bible, Acts xix. 31
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
* Bunyan
* J. Taylor
To try the chance; to take the risk.
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The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
(label) To encourage.
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*:And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Paul writeth unto Timothyto courage him.
In obsolete terms the difference between adventure and courage
is that adventure is risk; danger; peril while courage is to encourage.As nouns the difference between adventure and courage
is that adventure is the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat while courage is the quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.As verbs the difference between adventure and courage
is that adventure is to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture while courage is to encourage.adventure
English
(wikipedia adventure)Etymology 1
From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).Noun
(en noun)- He loved excitement and adventure .
- (Francis Bacon)
- The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .
- To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger
- Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
- Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
- He was in great adventure of his life.
Derived terms
* (remarkable occurrence) boredomAntonyms
* abstention, peradventure, unadventurousEtymology 2
From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.Verb
(adventur)- He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
- Yet they adventured to go back.
- Discriminations might be adventured .
Derived terms
* adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousnessReferences
* ----courage
English
Noun
(-)- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
