foolhardice

English

Alternative forms

foolhardise
foolhardize

Etymology

From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.

Noun

foolhardice (uncountable)

(obsolete) Foolhardiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.

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