foolhardice
English
Alternative forms
- foolhardise
- foolhardize
Etymology
From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.
Noun
foolhardice (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Foolhardiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv: