inconsideration

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French inconsideration and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inconsiderātiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

inconsideration (countable and uncountable, plural inconsiderations)

  1. Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
    • Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, II.11:
      new trained Souldiers, and such as are but novices in the trade, doe often headlong, and hand over head cast themselves into dangers, with more inconsideration, than afterward when they have seene and endured the first shocke, and are better trained in the schoole of perils.