rashness

Example Sentences

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The want of knowing the Northern Languages, has occasion’d an unkind Prejudice towards them: which some have introduced out of Rashness, others have taken upon Tradition.

From An apology for the study of northern antiquities by Elstob, Elizabeth

Indeed, I see no Hurt in't, even for a Tarpawlin to do it, abating the Rashness of passing Sentence in the Case.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

There is Bien Advis� and Mal Advis�, the good boy and the bad boy of nursery stories, who fall in respectively with Faith, Reason and Humility, and with Rashness, Luxury and Folly.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The Rashness of the Words, according to D’Herbelot, consisted in being so opposed to those in the Koran: “No Man knows where he shall die.”

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward

Fear, for example, is the feeling of which excess is Cowardice and defect is Rashness, while the mean is Courage.

From Notes on Islam by Hussain, Khaja Muhammad