temerity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TEMER'ITY, noun [Latin temeritas; properly a rushing forward.] 1. Rashness; unreasonable contempt of danger; as the temerity of a commander in war. 2. Extreme boldness. The figures are bold even to temerity
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