temerity
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This temerity is admirable in Crowley's film, and even if the film's setup is by now quite conventional, a great supporting cast of young and old British actors (including Anne-Marie Duff and David Morrissey as Edward's quarrelsome parents) carries some of its more contrived melodramatics.
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- noun Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.
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- Excited by their own temerity, the crowd now surged on to the great market-place in front of the Hotel de Ville, where the Friday market is held, instead of returning the saint promptly to his safe abiding-place as was meet. — Charles the Bold
- The temerity, the improvidence of that monarch; the disgraceful passions of the King of Navarre; his treacheries; the barbarous avidity of the nobility; the seditious disposition of the people; the sanguinary depredations of the great companies; the ever recurring insolence of England; all this is expressed without disguise, yet with extreme moderation. — Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
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This temerity is admirable in Crowley's film, and even if the film's setup is by now quite conventional, a great supporting cast of young and old British actors (including Anne-Marie Duff and David Morrissey as Edward's quarrelsome parents) carries some of its more contrived melodramatics.
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In a written statement, Doğan condemned what he described as the temerity of some members of the ruling party in resorting to threats and untruths to silence the media.
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Wonder at his temerity was the impression made by the news, but wonder unmixed with apprehension.
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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- Middle English temerite, from Old French, from Latin temeritās, from temere, rashly.
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/ (tə-mĕrˈĭ-tē)/
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