dareful

[dair-fuhl]

adjective

Obsolete.

1. daring.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dareful¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; dare + -ful

Example Sentences

"I ban't a dareful man," he replied, "that would run down the road in daylight for the whole nation to see, and I be terr'ble weak in the legs, so I just crept out in the night, so quiet as a star-beam, and sheltered in the orchard yonder, till I seed the rod fairly put in my hand by the Almighty, that I mid strike manna out of the stream, like old Moses, so to speak."

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Dareful she had met her spiritual foes; they had withdrawn defeated!

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Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, "They come:" our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie Till famine and the ague eat them up: Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home.

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