rashful en · ADJ
Etymology
From rash (“hasty, impulsive”) + -ful.
Meanings
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(archaic) Rash; hasty, precipitate.
“[…] 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;[…]”
1857, James A. Maitland, The Cousins: Or, The Captain's Ward, New York: Evert D. Long, pages 381–382:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more rashful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most rashful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |