"daungerous" meaning in Middle English

See daungerous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌdau̯nd͡ʒəˈruːs/, /ˈdau̯nd͡ʒ(ə)rus/ Forms: dangereous [alternative], dangerous [alternative], daungerus [alternative], dawngrous [alternative], dangerus [alternative], dauncherous [alternative, Southern]
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman daungerous (continental Old French dangeros), from daunger; thus by surface analysis, daunger (“power, resistance, danger”) + -ous (“-ous”). First attested in c. 1230. Etymology templates: {{bor+|enm|xno|daungerous}} Borrowed from Anglo-Norman daungerous, {{cog|fro|dangeros}} Old French dangeros, {{surf|enm|daunger|-ous|nocap=1|t1=power, resistance, danger|t2=-ous}} by surface analysis, daunger (“power, resistance, danger”) + -ous (“-ous”), {{etydate|c|1230}} First attested in c. 1230 Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{comp2}}}||{{{3}}}||{{{sup2}}}|f3l=|f5l=|head=}} daungerous, {{enm-adj}} daungerous
  1. Difficult to accommodate; severe, unsympathetic:
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj-pNHfq1jt Categories (other): Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13
  2. Difficult to accommodate; severe, unsympathetic:
    Disdainful, particular; hard to please.
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj--dXvOjC6 Categories (other): Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13
  3. Difficult to accommodate; severe, unsympathetic:
    Reserved, standoffish; not affable or congenial.
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj-6nJxIoXN Categories (other): Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13
  4. Difficult to accommodate; severe, unsympathetic:
    (rare) Overbearing, arrogant; displaying excessive dominance.
    Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj-o61gsAYb Categories (other): Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13
  5. Dangerous, risky; involving danger.
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj-zbfnKBKd Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 12 11 11 15 14 21 16 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13
  6. (pathology, rare) Difficult to cure or treat. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-daungerous-enm-adj-OJpOQIuH Categories (other): Pathology, Middle English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ous: 14 14 13 17 13 15 13 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0 0 0 0 0

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.