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recklessness|ˈrɛklɪsnɪs|
Forms: see reckless a.
[f. reckless a. + -ness.]
The quality of being reckless.
αa975K. Edgar's Canons in Thorpe Laws (1840) II. 262 Ic andette mines modes morðor..receleasnessa Godes beboda. a1023Wulfstan Hom. vii. (1883) 53 Onᵹean þam wislican ræde..se wiðerræda deofol sæwð receleasnesse. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 392 If eny siche lordeschips be..take fro hem by rechelesnes of her predecessouris. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xi. 344 Forto forsake God in a liȝtnes and in a rechelesnes. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. v. 199 How many good thinges thou hast lefte vndon of rechelesnes. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 206 b, Neyther can any such retchlesnes agree with the gracious mercifulnes of God. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 147 Through the wrechlessness of our first Parents. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke Wks. 1875 IV. 15 A retchlesness and mockery ill becoming his character.
β1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3909 Penance þat enioynt es And es forgeten thurgh reklesnes. 1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 29/2 By rekelesnesse..of suche Maistres and Mariners. c1470Henry Wallace x. 173 The gret trespace that [he], throw raklesnace, Had gert him mak. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 37 b, Throughe a certeine negligence, and racklesnes of suche as shoulde have redressed it in tyme. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. vi. (1891) 26 That ouer-many good fortunes began to breed a proude recklesnesse in them. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiv, Hardly listening to them, in the pride and recklessness of his nature. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 195 Oedipus, in his youthful recklessness,..kills his father and weds his mother.
b. Neglect or disregard of something.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 173 Englisshe men..woneþ hem to..rechelesnesse of Goddes hous. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 184 For his retchlesnes of feats of armes. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1999/2 For his owne priuat lucre and retchlesnesse of that noble realme. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 348 A society where recklessness of life is treated with leniency. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. ix. 348 In their insular recklessness of canonical niceties. |