jeopard
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The correct word is jeopard, but in any case there is no need for anything so farfetched and stilted.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
All the ten noble knights sought to dissuade him from dishonouring himself and from forcing them to jeopard their lives, unarmed as they were, in defending the Queen.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
They called it "a sore adventure to jeopard ships with men and goods unto the said island, upon the singular trust of one man, called, as they understood, Sebastian."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
VINCENT: That must I needs jeopard, for other surety can there none be had.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
Hardly, my dear friend, for I fear that on deck you would give way to your own individual prejudices against me, and do something that would jeopard my interest in the premises.
From Stand By The Union by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
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