Wretchedness vs Danger - What's the difference?
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An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.
(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.
Wretchedness is a related term of danger.
As nouns the difference between wretchedness and danger
is that wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering while danger is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below.As a verb danger is
(obsolete) to claim liability.wretchedness
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Noun
(en-noun)- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
danger
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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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- "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).