rashful

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English

Etymology

From rash (hasty, impulsive) +‎ -ful.

Adjective

rashful (comparative more rashful, superlative most rashful)

  1. (now rare) Rash; hasty, precipitate.
    • 1857, James A. Maitland, The Cousins: Or, The Captain's Ward, New York: Evert D. Long, pages 381–382:
      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; 

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