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ˈover-ˈhasty, a.
[over- 28.]
Too hasty; rash, precipitate.
[c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 111 Be noght ouer hasty yn þi werkys.] 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxvii. 28 Least any man should bee overhastie and swift in judgment. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 57 Our o're-hasty Marriage. 1615Crooke Body of Man 254 The safest way is not to be ouer⁓hasty to burie women..for some haue beene knowne so long after their supposed deaths to reuiue. 1864Bowen Logic ix. 288 The Fallacy of over-hasty generalization is very frequent.
So ˈover-ˈhastily adv.; ˈover-ˈhastiness.
c1440Jacob's Well 144 Whan þou etyst ouer-hastely, as it were an hownd. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lv. 23 The vyce of over-hastynesse cannot otherwyse bee corrected. 1577–87Holinshed Chron., Hist. Eng. viii. xi. heading, Manie of the Normans pursuing the Englishe ouerhastilie procure their owne death. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. iii. 147 The defect of occasional over-hastiness. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. 522 When he over-hastily condemns it. |