rashly

English

Etymology

From rash +‎ -ly.[1]

Adverb

rashly (comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly)

  1. In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
    Synonym: (archaic) rash
    • 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:
      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: []
    • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw [], Act I:
      Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking 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:
      VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.
      The First Folio (1623), page 327, uses the word rash.
    • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:
      [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.

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References

  1. ^ rashly, adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.