Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rash manner; hastily; with precipitation; inconsiderately; presumptuously; at a venture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rash manner; with precipitation.
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- adverb In a
rash manner; withprecipitation ;hastily ;presumptuously ; at aventure .
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- adverb in a hasty and foolhardy manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Patrick in rashly jumping to judgment were highly irresponsible given their high office.
Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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In 1829 Spain rashly attempted a reconquest of Mexico.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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In 1829 Spain rashly attempted a reconquest of Mexico.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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In 1829 Spain rashly attempted a reconquest of Mexico.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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“And if you are determined to act what my feeble judgment must still term rashly, why give yourself the pain of this untimely meeting?”
Old Mortality 2004
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"And if you are determined to act what my feeble judgment must still term rashly, why give yourself the pain of this untimely meeting?"
Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801
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"And if you are determined to act what my feeble judgment must still term rashly, why give yourself the pain of this untimely meeting?"
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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“In Italy, judges of operas are so far from thinking the drama or poetical part of their operas nonsense, as the unskilled in Italian rashly conclude in England, that if the Libretto, as they call it, is not approved, the opera, notwithstanding the excellence of the music, will be condemned.
Pamela 2006
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Some dissenters still baptize rashly, with scarcely any probation and less teaching, and some have drifted so far from gospel truth that they receive converts into their society without baptizing them at all.
India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin
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Now, it is not becoming, that we should do any thing rashly, that is, till we have prayed to God for direction.
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