foolhardice
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.
Noun[edit]
foolhardice (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Foolhardiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.