Rashful
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Rash; hasty, precipitate. archaic
"“[…] I told him that I had the power, if he refused to do so, to make him a beggar; but I should not have carried out my threats. The young man, however, had fallen in love with Miss Denman, and, in a moment of rashful impulse, he quitted Nantucket, and I heard nothing more of him, until a few days since;[…]”"
Example
More examples"“[…] I told him that I had the power, if he refused to do so, to make him a beggar; but I should not have carried out my threats. The young man, however, had fallen in love with Miss Denman, and, in a moment of rashful impulse, he quitted Nantucket, and I heard nothing more of him, until a few days since;[…]”"
Etymology
From rash (“hasty, impulsive”) + -ful.
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