rashly

adv

rashly

adv

Etymology From rash + -ly.

1

In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.

  • Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie: […].”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book III, page 245, column 2:
  • Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
2 more examples
  • VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:
  • [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:

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