单词 | unadvisedness |
释义 | unadvisednessn. The quality of being unadvised; want of consideration or reflection; imprudence, rashness; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [noun] > imprudence indiscretionc1340 unprudencea1382 undiscretiona1395 unadvisednessc1449 unadvisement1526 imprudence?1541 undiscreetness1542 imprudency1576 indiscreetness1658 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 357 It is to be bileeued that Girald was bigilid (as manie othere writers bi liȝtnes and vnavisidnes han be). 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 256v There was nothyng more unconvenable for a perfecte good Capitaine, then over muche hastyng & unavisednesse. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxlii. 875 How many faults do we commit through vnaduisednesse, when we thinke not on them? 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 876/2 By his owne vnaduisednesse..he clouded his honour. 1681 J. Kettlewell Measures Christian Obed. (1715) 564 All his unwill'd ignorances, and innocent unadvisednesses, upon his prayers for pardon shall be abated. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) ix. §16 In the case of un-advisedness with respect to any of the circumstances. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) ix. §17 Un-advisedness coupled with heedlessness, and mis-advisedness coupled with rashness. 1853 J. Hamilton Life Bp. J. Hall 167 The circumstance which implicated him was, at the worst, an act of unadvisedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1449 |
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