Usually means: Bold, daring actions; adventurous courage.
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  1. derring: Wordnik
  2. derring: Wiktionary
  3. Derring, derring: Dictionary.com
  4. Derring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. derring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Derring: Rhymezone
  7. Derring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. derring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. derring: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Derring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (derring)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) daring; warlike

Similar:
adventerous, warly, aguerried, dretful, battailous, dreadly, bould, orped, warish, ventersome, more...

Types:
do, risk, dare, venture, more...

Phrases:
derring do, more...

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Similar:
adventerous, warly, aguerried, dretful, battailous, dreadly, bould, orped, warish, ventersome, more...

Types:
do, risk, dare, venture, more...

Phrases:
derring do, more...



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