overboldness

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They “advised their captain, through his overboldness, not to leave their widows and fatherless children to give him bitter curses.”

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

Thirdly come one or two significant admissions of overboldness in matters of criticism, as where he retracts his censure of Raphael's Parnassus in Letter XXXIII.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Did you know with what joy I turned my back on the Court of Pesaro—" "Aye," he broke in mockingly, "when Giovanni Sforza threatened to have you hanged for the overboldness of your tongue.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

I was never an advocate of overboldness, but our guide erred in the other extreme.

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.

J. Coming now to the point of my story, I have to relate how his overboldness was proved by his death.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George