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[[Image:Great Train Robbery still, public domain film.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[film still]] from the ''[[Great Train Robbery]]'', a [[robber]] shooting at the [[projection screen]].]] [[Image:Great Train Robbery still, public domain film.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[film still]] from the ''[[Great Train Robbery]]'', a [[robber]] shooting at the [[projection screen]].]]
[[Image:The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus (1588) - Hendrick Goltzius.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus]]'' [[1588]] by [[Goltzius]]]] [[Image:The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus (1588) - Hendrick Goltzius.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus]]'' [[1588]] by [[Goltzius]]]]
-[[Image:Index Librorum Prohibitorum.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The '''''Index Librorum Prohibitorum''''' ("[[banned books|List of Prohibited Books]]") is a list of publications which the [[Catholic|Catholic Church]] [[censorship|censored]] for being a [[danger]] to itself and the faith of its members. The various [[edition]]s also contain the rules of the [[Church]] relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of [[morality|immoral]] books or works containing [[theology|theological]] errors and to prevent the [[corruption]] of the faithful.]]+[[Image:Harold Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.jpg |thumb|right|200px|
 +[[Harold Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic]]]]
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'''Danger''' means being at [[risk]] or exposure to liable [[harm]]. '''Danger''' means being at [[risk]] or exposure to liable [[harm]].
==Etymology== ==Etymology==
-From Middle English ''daunger'' (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman ''dangier'', from Old French ''dangier'', alteration of Old French ''dongier'' (due to association with Latin ''damnum'' (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin ''*domniārium'' (“authority, power”) from Latin ''dominus'' (“lord, master”).+From Middle English ''daunger'' (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman ''dangier'', from Old French ''dangier'', alteration of Old French ''dongier'' (due to association with Latin ''damnum'' (“[[damage]]”)) from Vulgar Latin ''*domniārium'' (“authority, power”) from Latin ''dominus'' (“lord, master”).
==Namesakes== ==Namesakes==
* ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos * ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
==See also== ==See also==
*[[Cautionary tale]] *[[Cautionary tale]]
 +*''[[Purity and Danger ]]'' by Mary Douglas
*[[Adrenaline]] *[[Adrenaline]]
*[[Fear]] *[[Fear]]
*[[Thrill seeker]] *[[Thrill seeker]]
 +*[[Hazard]]
*[[Peril]] *[[Peril]]
*[[Menace]] *[[Menace]]
*[[Threat]] *[[Threat]]
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Danger means being at risk or exposure to liable harm.

Etymology

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

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