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Definition of Hazarding
1. hazard [v] - See also: hazard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hazarding
Literary usage of Hazarding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1850)
"... as can be drawn from it without hazarding that post too much; provided the
hazard (on account of the insurgents) may not be too great for the proposed ..."
2. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"making treaties;—as they often involve considerations calculated to Lave great
weight,—but which cannot be disclosed without hazarding their success. ..."
3. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"Tertullian says,1 that more were deterred from embracing Christianity by
unwillingness to forfeit their pleasures, than by the fear of hazarding their life. ..."
4. The Life of John Locke: With Extracts from His Correspondence, Journals, and by Peter King King (1830)
"You may be assured, nothing shall hinder me from hazarding all I am worth, when
it may be advantageous to such a friend. I perceive my great concern has ..."
5. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come Delivered by John Bunyan (1896)
"thy foot from the way of peace, even almost to the hazarding of thy perdition.
Then Christian fell down at his foot as dead, crying, ..."
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