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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a temerarious or presumptuous manner; rashly; inconsiderately.

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Examples

  • He wiped them with one temerariously disengaged hand.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • The author half admits this when he says in his peculiar prose: 'Sometimes I have temerariously engaged in debate with authors dangerous to disagree with.'

    The Illegitimate Theater Dennis, Nigel 1982

  • But from the darkness of the minds of men and their unmortified affections (as the best know but in part, nor are they perfectly sanctified) it is that they are apt to take offence one at another, and thereon to judge and censure each other temerariously; and, which is worst of all, every one to make his own understanding and persuasion thereon the rule of truth and worship unto others.

    A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity 1616-1683 1965

  • He wiped them with one temerariously disengaged hand.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • Alvord, and temerariously agreed to go with him to the lodge that evening.

    Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

  • I went gladly enough, secured the new job, learned how to do it acceptably, and was temerariously happy and light-hearted for two whole weeks.

    Branded Francis Lynde 1893

  • There could never be presented a subject less calculated to be wound up with a rhetorical flourish or to close in pompous affirmation than that which I have so temerariously brought before you this afternoon.

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

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