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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English hasty English overhasty From over- + hasty.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Too hasty.
We must not be overhasty in condemning those, who made an earnest plea for the educational rights of women.
1910, Good Housekeeping Magazine 1910-09: Volume 51, Issue 3, Hearst Magazines, page 257:The discovery of galvanism, the general progress of the knowledge of electricity, the beginnings of chemistry, the various beginnings of discovery in the biological sciences —all these things constituted fascinating temptations to overhasty generalization. .
1913, John Michels, Science, Science Press, page 572:I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.
"Sir Julien de Montessy, he at length said, " I may have been overhasty in my judgment, suspend your's for awhile ; — there be no book in whatever tongue so hard to read as a woman's heart ! I have told you what I have seen and heard — yet hearing, I might have heard wrong, and seeing, I might have viewed with eyes prejudiced by my humour; so it were best deliberate ere so rash a step as you propose be taken. He is a right brave, open-hearted stripling, and by my faith, sir knight, t' would grieve me sorely that harm befell him, were I sure you had no ground for animosity.
1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress, Edward Bull, pages 137-138:He entered into a discourse filled with phrases like "secondary consciousness" "collective hallucinations," "nerve-force," wherein, while admitting that great and good men believed in the phenomena of "spiritism," he concluded that they were overhasty in assigning causes. For his part, the realm of hallucination was boundless.
1905, Hamlin Garland, The Tyranny of the Dark, Harper & Brothers, page 358:But, however, concerning philosophies of this kind, a caution was on no account to be overlooked ; because already we foresee it in mind, and augur, that if at any time, stirred by our admonitions, men (taking leave of the sophistical learning) shall, in earnest, shape themselves to experiment, then will it certainly happen, on account of the premature and overhasty speed of the mind, and its spring and flight to generalities and the principles of things, tliat there will be an imminent danger from such philosophies; and this evil it is fit even now to meet.
1844, Francis Bacon, James Glassford, Novum Organum Scientiarum, Edinburgh Print Company, pages 50-51:He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.
1836, Medico-Chirurgical Review, Richard & George S. Wood, page 64: