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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French aventurer with the suffixation of -en (infinitive forming suffix). Related to English adventure, venture and Middle English aventure, auntrous.
Verb
auntren (third-person singular simple present auntreth, present participle auntrende, auntrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle auntred)
- to venture, risk (one's life), dare
- to happen, occur
- (also reflexive) to undertake, try, take a chance
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
4205-4206: