foolhardice

noun

foolhardice

noun

Etymology From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.

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Obsolete Foolhardiness.

  • Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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