rashness

Example Sentences

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Rashness will only bring about our own death.

From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.

Rashness is clearly opposed to counsel, whereby man does not proceed to action before deliberating with his reason.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Oh! hold, my Lord, what has your Rashness done?

From The Perjur'd Husband by Centlivre, Susanna

And here the young Gentlewoman was quickly satisfy'd that her Cousin's Rashness had brought him to his End.

From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Defoe, Daniel

When Necessity calls for it, I would not stick to venture my Life: But to do it without any Necessity, is Rashness.

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