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English
Etymology
From rash (“hasty, impulsive”) + -ful.
Adjective
rashful (comparative more rashful, superlative most rashful)
- (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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