Adjective : a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer. ,Auto racing is a venturesome sport. From Dictionary.com.
So yes, there is inevitably some decline in venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
For a safe mediocrity is indeed praised, but a bold venturesomeness is also admired. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
That was a venture, felt in all its venturesomeness, answered not with encouragement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
Look again at his venturesomeness in trusting the Gospel to the twelve and to us -- and in facing the Cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
The innovators who adopt an innovation first have a very low threshold for adoption, attributable to their venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference
Sometimes a "dare line" is drawn a few feet in front of each home goal, which challenges the opponents to a special thrill of venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
In fact, the venturesomeness of consumers has nourished unimaginable advances in our standard of living and created invaluable human capital that is often ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Consumers Can Still Spot Value in a Crisis] Reference
Mount Mars, if prominent, indicates self-respect, coolness, and control of self under trying circumstances, courage, venturesomeness and confidence in one's ability for anything undertaken. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Before going ahead an entrepreneur has to foresee an adequate presence of Nelson-Phelps managers and, similarly, Bhidé consumers with the education and venturesomeness required to weigh, judge and operate the new product or method. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography] Reference
Maupertuis, as has been said, was courageous and venturesome, and this venturesomeness being uncorrected by the severe discipline of a large body of accurate positive knowledge, such as Clairaut and Lagrange possessed, led him into some worse than equivocal speculation. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Ranny, with his venturesomeness, had carried it a step further. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
True love is ever diffident and fearful of its own venturesomeness (3). From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
Knowing the English tongue as I do, I may afford the venturesomeness to play upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
And at such times their venturesomeness both astonished themselves and amused their Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)] Reference
His maps were worthless, and clinging to experience, he showed none of his accustomed venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference
+ The most striking peculiarity of English Gothic design was its studious avoidance of temerity or venturesomeness in construction. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
In this case, the drive master, desperately casting about for an excuse, was guilty of something like an enormity in venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
But the irascible part, the other steed, has its own fault, and that fault twofold, sometimes of over-venturesomeness, sometimes of shying and turning tail. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
Fortitude then is the virtue that restrains fear and regulates venturesomeness by the judgment of reason, in danger especially of a grand and glorious death. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
Geraldine was very glad of Felix's substantial arm, but she had rather he had omitted that rebuke for venturesomeness in dealing with her, which would have affronted. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
She must have been aware that there was a hitch somewhere; for, referring again and again, as she did, to Ranny's venturesomeness, she would say, "It beats me where he gets it from.". From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
Singularly enough there is no reference to Peter's venturesomeness and failure in the Gospel which is generally believed to have been written under his special inspection and suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference
Twice the old lavender-coloured bonnet that was projecting over the side of the gallery drew back in alarm, and twice its owner held her breath and rated herself sternly for her venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Salthaven] Reference
In the formation of what we may call our historical mind -- namely, that modification of our animal and primitive outlook which has been produced by men of exceptional intellectual venturesomeness -- the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform] Reference
Taylor got himself into the King's Bench Prison by his venturesomeness, and, once there, found consolation in a philosophy which taught him that of all places in the world the properest one for an opera manager was a prison. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
He used to say that if Pitt had lived in times of peace he would have been a reformer after the fashion of Peel and Canning, adding his own venturesomeness to the largeness of views of the one and the capable sound sense of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
Look again at his venturesomeness in trusting the Gospel to the twelve and to us ” and in facing the Cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History]
The face of Ethelberta showed venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Also a striking singularity and venturesomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Whipped Cream] Reference
"The venturesomeness is much more broad-based.". From Wordnik.com. [ContraFactos & Argumentos] Reference
I. Note, first, Peter's venturesomeness, half faith, and half presumption. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference
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