Overhasty

Synonyms for "overhasty" (30 found)

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I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.

Source: wiktionary

He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.

Source: wiktionary

"Sir Julien de Montessy, he at length said, " I may have been overhasty in my judgment, suspend your's for awhile ; — there be no book in whatever tongue so hard to read as a woman's heart ! I have told you what I have seen and heard — yet hearing, I might have heard wrong, and seeing, I might have viewed with eyes prejudiced by my humour; so it were best deliberate ere so rash a step as you propose be taken. He is a right brave, open-hearted stripling, and by my faith, sir knight, t' would grieve me sorely that harm befell him, were I sure you had no ground for animosity.

Source: wiktionary

But, however, concerning philosophies of this kind, a caution was on no account to be overlooked ; because already we foresee it in mind, and augur, that if at any time, stirred by our admonitions, men (taking leave of the sophistical learning) shall, in earnest, shape themselves to experiment, then will it certainly happen, on account of the premature and overhasty speed of the mind, and its spring and flight to generalities and the principles of things, tliat there will be an imminent danger from such philosophies; and this evil it is fit even now to meet.

Source: wiktionary

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