Meaning of daresn't | Babel Free

Definitions

Contraction of dares + not.

abbreviation, alt-of, contraction

Examples

“My miſtreſs begged hard for me, but ſhe daresn’t contradict that man; and ſo after many kind words, which was very good of her, ſhe ſaid I muſt leave her, but particularly ſhe ſaid for no fault, only becauſe of what her brother deſired.”

“I believe he daresn’t fight, though he talks ſo big.”

“There’s Murphy Roake, who often broke / My head, now daresn’t dare me, / But bows and quakes, and off he sneaks, / Since I’ve been in the army.”

“Damn the devil, Flask; do you suppose I’m afraid of the devil? Who’s afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn’t catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but let’s him go about kidnapping people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil kidnapped, he’d roast for him? There’s a governor!”

“But he lives around here doing tinkering and odd fixing, and Vilate Franker says he must have done some terrible crime to have to hide from the sea, or maybe there was some great sea beast that swallowed up his ship and left only him alive and now he daresn’t go back to sea for fear the beast—she calls it La Vaya Than, which Goody Trader says is Spanish for ‘Ain’t this a damn lie,’ do you know Goody Trader?”

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