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(Ventouryng,) Vent(e)ring, vbl. n. [e.m.E. venturing (1548), ventryng (1562), ventring (1595).] The action of venturing or attempting (something dangerous or risky). — 1604-31 Craig v 26.
My ship … On rockes full colde is rent … And I forsaken soule … Twixt wind and waue am cast … My ventring was my wracke … Which made the naufrage of my hurt, my hope, my hap, and all 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 258.
Archibald Law … did loss his lyfe by ventering to quench the lait fyre 1684 Hay Fleming Six Saints II 227.
We desire … to encourage you in follouing of your deuty, when in ventring for Christ and His cause
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