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English
Etymology
From Latin imprūdēntia.
Noun
imprudency (countable and uncountable, plural imprudencies)
- (obsolete) The fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
- (obsolete, countable) An imprudent act.
1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 2, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:he rival and the admirer would certainly avoid amending imprudencies, by which they were both equally likely to profit.
1791, Jane Austen, “History of England”, in Juvenilia:I now most seriously do assure my Reader that she was entirely innocent; having never been guilty of anything more than Imprudencies into which she was betrayed by the openness of her Heart, her Youth, and her Education.