Crossword clues for rashness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rashness \Rash"ness\, n. The quality or state of being rash.
We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or
denying, before we have sufficiently informed
ourselves.
--South.
Syn: Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion; heedlessness; inconsideration; carelessness. See Temerity.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste; headstrong precipitation in decision or action; temerity; unwarranted boldness.
WordNet
n. the trait of acting rashly and without prudence [syn: heedlessness, mindlessness]
the trait of giving little thought to danger [syn: recklessness, foolhardiness]
Usage examples of "rashness".
If the Federacy would attack this bedimmed colony and destroy it, Mari might be spared the consequences of their rashness, though he would die with the Shuhr.
There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.
The seceders owed from the first their successes not to their superior organization, to their better preparation, or to the better discipline and appointment of their armies, but to their very rashness, to their audacity even, and the hesitancy, cautious and deliberation of the government.
But the fame of Belisarius was not sullied by a defeat, in which he alone had saved his army from the consequences of their own rashness: the approach of peace relieved him from the guard of the eastern frontier, and his conduct in the sedition of Constantinople amply discharged his obligations to the emperor.
These allegations were not deemed exculpatory by the rest of the assembly, who with one voice pronounced him guilty of unwarrantable rashness and indiscretion, which, in time coming, must undoubtedly operate to the prejudice of his character and credit.
Only for his pride in obeying all orders that came to him from the scoutmaster, Seth very likely would have followed the cat, and probably rued his rashness when he had to call for help a minute or so later.
If they were sometimes tempted by a sally of passion, or by the hopes of concealment, to indulge their favorite superstition, their humble repentance disarmed the severity of the Christian magistrate, and they seldom refused to atone for their rashness, by submitting, with some secret reluctance, to the yoke of the Gospel.
But the rashness of these concessions has encouraged a milder sentiment of those of the Docetes, who taught, not that Christ was a phantom, but that he was clothed with an impassible and incorruptible body.
Thus it is that symbols, outlast their explanations, as many have done in Masonry, and ignorance and rashness substitute new ones.
To navigate the Euxine before the month of May, or after that of September, is esteemed by the modern Turks the most unquestionable instance of rashness and folly.
The situation called for hardihood, but not the smallest piece of rashness.
The seceders owed from the first their successes not to their superior organization, to their better preparation, or to the better discipline and appointment of their armies, but to their very rashness, to their audacity even, and the hesitancy, cautious and deliberation of the government.
If the Federacy would attack this bedimmed colony and destroy it, Mari might be spared the consequences of their rashness, though he would die with the Shuhr.
A synod of bishops was instantly convened to debate this important question: the rashness of these clandestine anathemas was generally condemned.
A synod of bishops was instantly convened to debate this important question: the rashness of these clandestine anathemas was generally condemned.