Word of the Day:
temerarious
What It Means
Characterized by temerity; recklessly daring or bold.
Temerarious in Context
“To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose; and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness;—it may seem a paradox, but in the...”
Did You Know?
Learned borrowing from Latin temerārius (“accidental, casual, rash, reckless”), from temerē (“by chance, at random, rashly”).
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