dangerousest
English
Adjective
dangerousest
- (nonstandard, informal) superlative form of dangerous: most dangerous
- 1625 February 27, Glanville, John, Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Voyage to Cadiz in 1625, Camden Society, published 1883, page xiv:
- And it is one of the dangerousest pointe in commaund to commaund without mony, and to have litle mony to content them, for there is nothing that will make a man more hated or slandred than that; for to punish and not to paye is ever receaved in an armie for tirannie.
- 1891 March, “"Incendiares" and "Plotters."”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXX, number 1923, page 269:
- He must be well looked to, for it fears me he will prove the dangerousest man in the State.
- 1908, Smith, Henry, “A looking-glass for Christians”, in John Brown, editor, The Sermons of Henry Smith, Cambridge University Press, page 127:
- There is a surfiet of wisdom, which is the dangerousest surfeit of all other; […]
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