Danger vs Hitler - What's the difference?
danger | hitler |
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(obsolete) Liability.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
Exposure to liable harm.
An instance or cause of liable harm.
Mischief.
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
* Oxford English Dictionary
A surname of Austrian origin.
, dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
* {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
, passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.
* {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
, passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ...
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* {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
, passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein).
(derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
* {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
, passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}
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As nouns the difference between danger and hitler
is that danger is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below while hitler is (derogatory) an unnecessarily dictatorial person.As a verb danger
is (obsolete) to claim liability.As a proper noun hitler is
a surname of austrian origin.danger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
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- (Chaucer)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).
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