overhaste

overhaste noun: excessive, often undue haste.

Noun

overhaste (uncountable)

Excessive, often undue haste.
- The mischief arising from the overhaste of both the bodies in question in stamping with their approving mark most questionable dogmas, without full inquiry first had, is palpably shown in the position which Mr. Atherton thinks himself entitled to hold in consequence. Nothing ought to pass current...1857, The Mechanics' Magazine, Robertson, Brooman, and Company, page 418
- Consciousness of power has not betrayed the author into the common fault of overhaste to execute ill-matured conceptions. He has evidently taken the trouble in the first place to possess himself with a clear understanding of his own purposes and of the method in which they were to be worked out...1859, The Spectator 1859-05-14: Volume 32, Issue 1611, The Spectator (1828) Limited, page 518

Consciousness of power has not betrayed the author into the common fault of overhaste to execute ill-matured conceptions.1859, The Spectator 1859-05-14: Volume 32, Issue 1611, The Spectator (1828) Limited, page 518:
Touching the sophisms, even Aristotle, Rhet. setting forth of the truth, or of a patriot warning against wrong-doing and overhaste.1877, Eduard Zeller, Oswald Joseph Reichel, Socrates and the Socratic Schools, Longmans, Green, and Company, pages 197-198:

From over- + haste.

What does overhaste mean?: Overhaste means excessive, often undue haste.
How do you use overhaste in a sentence?: Consciousness of power has not betrayed the author into the common fault of overhaste to execute ill-matured conceptions.
What part of speech is overhaste?: Overhaste is a noun.

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