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daredevilry

  • a variation of daredeviltry.
    daredeviltry
    noun
    reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
  • a word derived from daredevil.
    daredevil
    noun
    a recklessly daring person.

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As symbols go, Niagara Falls offers plenty: a source of power, daredevilry, a bucolic vacation.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2018

If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2016

I want to recreate the bygone theatre of daredevilry.

From The Guardian Mar. 1, 2013

And now he has set his sights on a new deed of daredevilry — walking the 1,800 feet across the gorge of Niagara Falls while balancing on a two-inch-diameter steel cable.

From New York Times Aug. 5, 2011

How has this latent daredevilry become so implanted in us that it rises from the bottom depths of one's nature; and how has it become ordinarily so hidden?

From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds