imprudency

English

Etymology

From Latin imprūdēntia.

Noun

imprudency (countable and uncountable, plural imprudencies)

1. (obsolete) The fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
2. (obsolete, countable) An imprudent act.
   • 1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 2, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:

     [T]he rival and the admirer would certainly avoid amending imprudencies, by which they were both equally likely to profit.

   • 1791, Jane Austen, “History of England”, in Juvenilia:

     I now most seriously do assure my Reader that she was entirely innocent; having never been guilty of anything more than Imprudencies into which she was betrayed by the openness of her Heart, her Youth, and her Education.