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Definition of Temerarious
1. Adjective. Presumptuously daring. "A daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"
Definition of Temerarious
1. a. Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
Definition of Temerarious
1. Adjective. Recklessly daring or bold ¹
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Definition of Temerarious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temerarious
Literary usage of Temerarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Finally, it is denominated (c) rash, or temerarious, if it rests on insufficient
conjectures or scarcely probable arguments. Such presumption is to be ..."
2. Essays on the Church's Doctrinal Authority by William George Ward (1880)
"And some theologians in fact hold, that a true proposition may be censured ex
cathedra, as being " temerarious " or the like under the circumstances of the ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Receiving testimony exempt from that security which is afforded by punishment
against mendacity and temerarious falsity; and that in cases in which ..."
4. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"Receiving testimony exempt from that security which is afforded against mendacity
and temerarious falsity by the sanction of an oath ; and that in cases in ..."
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