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The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South.

nces; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. Macualay. The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. Burke.

Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.] My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

equence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Rashness; temerity. [R.] Spenser.

or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness. Hammond.

Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected. Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular assemblies. Sir J. Mackintosh.