c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 2365 In gret wraþþe & hastinesse, to þe kinges chambre hii wende.
?c1350 N. Bozon (Gray's Inn 12) (1889) 20 Le corf dont respond en son engleys: Wel wurth suffraunce yat abatez strif, And wo worth hastinece [?a1400 Harl. 1288 hastynesse] yat reves man his lif.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 213 (MED) [Me] schal kutte..tresoun out of þe citee..incontynense and hastinesse out of alle þinges [L. a cunctis rebus intemperantia].
1448 (Arms) 482 (MED) His eyen..thourgh stourbelyng of hert as sperkelyng fuyre, as lightnyng, with hastenesse.
a1450 (Richardson 44) (1884) 41 (MED) He waxed nye wood by hedy hastynesse.
a1500 (?a1400) (Harl. 2250) (1926) l. 10630 (MED) And esy speche Also to haue, Noo hastynes ne cruelte.
1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. KKvi Hastinesse or irefulnesse.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 105 Thair ouir haistines, and ouer bent to reuenge.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) i. viii. 923 Scolding women, which do imitate the hastiness and froward disposition of the Wasp.
1685 132 Hast thou mourn'd and been afflicted for thy former hastiness of spirit, and causeless ventings of thy passion?
1749 H. Fielding VI. xvi. iv. 35 You have a little too much Hastiness in your Temper. View more context for this quotation
1830 I. D'Israeli III. v. 73 Laud..had the bluntness and hastiness of a monastic character.
1863 3 Jan. 684/1 She is not without faults; as, for instance, hastiness of temper.
1910 19 May 10/5 The irritability occasionally shown by sufferers from gout is often wrongly ascribed to..natural hastiness of disposition.
1976 14 104 Such failings as hastiness of temper and a delight in the sarcastic rebuke.
2003 N. Foulkes (2005) xxiii. 363 Sudden impulses of hastiness of temper (as distinguished from habitual ill-humour), had been subdued.