单词 | rashness |
释义 | rashnessn. The quality of being rash; unthinking haste or boldness; recklessness, foolhardiness; (also) an instance of this, a rash act. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [noun] > rashness or recklessness recklessnessOE resec1275 outragea1387 rechelesshipc1390 wantonnessc1390 hastivessa1393 recklesslaika1400 racklenessc1405 recklessheadc1410 headiness1447 temerity?a1475 lavishness1477 hastivitya1500 rashnessa1500 Ate1587 temerousness1598 temeritude1623 wretchlessness1625 hare-brainedness1656 rantum-scantum1695 temerariousness1711 blindness1796 devil-may-carishness1829 devil-may-careness1834 devil-may-care1836 rattle-brain1838 devil-may-careism1841 bullheadedness1858 harum-scarumness1863 madcappery1905 the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > [noun] > rashness folly?c1225 reighshipc1275 temerity?a1475 rashnessa1500 audacity1531 overhardiness1594 over-daring1595 temerousness1598 daringness1622 temerariousness1711 a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 77 (MED) Vnderstand wele þat such conseil rectifieth counselers, ordeyneth and augmentith the gouernaill of kynges..Neyther do no thynge of rasshnesse, puttyng before that þat shold be put be-hynde. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQvii All rasshnesse or hastynesse in spekyng. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Kv If I vanquish thee, thou shalt feele the burthen of thy rashnesse. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. x. 45 Combatants, who engaged by rashnesse, are driven into the Lists to avoyd disgrace. 1687 Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884) IV. 174 Convict of their rashnes and inhumane dealing in their drunkennes. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 173 I fear..that your Disregard to me..may throw you upon some Rashness. 1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers lxxiii. 265 There would oftener be room for a charge of timidity than of rashness, in the exercise of [the negative]. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 142 If I should do This rashness. 1897 F. D. Rogers Folk-stories Northern Border 242 Too late their rashness they bemoan. 1953 A. Michelson tr. S. de Beauvoir Marquis de Sade i. 17 Sade was at times capable of extravagant boldness, both out of rashness and generosity. 1992 B. Adams Brought to Book 10 James errs on the side of caution and you, Aphra, on the side of rashness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500 |
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