ventrous

English

Alternative forms

• vent'rous

Adjective

ventrous (comparative more ventrous, superlative most ventrous)

1. Obsolete spelling of venturous
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto 4, Verse 4:

     Small harme it were / For any Knight upon a ventrous Knight / Without displeasance for to prove his spere.

   • 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:

     The Queens colours are his, given by the King : / Who knowes that valour should not want reward, / And ventrous Spirits, best keep Princes guard.

   • 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

     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.