"ventrous" meaning in English

See ventrous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more ventrous [comparative], most ventrous [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} ventrous (comparative more ventrous, superlative most ventrous)
  1. Obsolete spelling of venturous. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: venturous Synonyms: vent'rous
    Sense id: en-ventrous-en-adj-ns~C7IPc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto 4, Verse 4:",
          "text": "Small harme it were / For any Knight upon a ventrous Knight / Without displeasance for to prove his spere.",
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          "ref": "1656, Gioachino Greco, The royall game of cheſſe-play: Sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred gambetts:",
          "text": "The Queens colours are his, given by the King : / Who knowes that valour should not want reward, / And ventrous Spirits, best keep Princes guard.",
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          "ref": "1667, Gaultier de Coste La Calprenède (seigneur de), Sir Charles Cotterell, Cassandra: the fam'd romance. The whole work: in five parts; written originally in French, and now elegantly rendered into English, page 287",
          "text": "For all that, answered Araſpes, this ventrous boy lived many moneths among them, where his youth, and a womans habit, wherewith he was disguised, made him pass for one of their ſex."
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