dare say
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[edit]dare say (third-person singular simple present dares say or dare say, present participle daring to say, simple past and past participle dared say or (archaic) durst say)
- (intransitive, originally, now less common) Alternative form of daresay
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- The kitchen window was open. I asked Sydney if he had left it so.
‘I don’t know, — I dare say we did; I don’t fancy that either of us stood on the order of his coming.’