menace
/ˈmɛnɪs/ nom C2En français : menace
- A perceived threat or danger.
- The act of threatening.
- An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
Pluriel menaces
Dans la bibliothèque
According to your idea, there was never any hidden menace, or secret society, or Valley of Fear, or Boss MacSomebody, or anything else.
“Sire, I have come as rapidly to Paris as possible, to inform your majesty that I have discovered, in the exercise of my duties, not a commonplace and insignificant plot, such as is every day got up in the lower ranks of the people and in the army, but an actual conspiracy—a storm which menaces no less than your majesty’s throne.
This oath was no longer a vain menace; for the fastest sailor in the Mediterranean would have been unable to overtake the little tartan, that with every stitch of canvas set was flying before the wind to Leghorn.
This menace smothered the young man’s passion.
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