rashly

English

Etymology

From rash +‎ -ly.

Adverb

rashly (comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly)

1. In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.

   Synonym: (archaic) rash

   • 1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie: […].”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book III, page 245, column 2:

     Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:

     Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:

     VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

     The First Folio (1623), page 327, uses the word rash.

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:

     [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.

Translations

in a rash manner

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܝܩܐ (ʾīqēʾ)

• Bengali: অন্ধভাবে (bn) (ôndhôbhabe)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輕易 / 轻易 (zh) (qīngyì)

• Czech: ukvapeně, zbrkle (cs), unáhleně
• Finnish: hätäisesti (fi), varomattomasti (fi)
• French: étourdiment (fr), imprudemment (fr)
• Georgian: გამალებულად (gamalebulad)
• German: vorschnell (de)
• Greek: αβασάνιστα (el) (avasánista)

  Ancient Greek: εἰκῇ (eikēî), κραιπνῶς (kraipnôs)

• Italian: ardimentosamente, arrischiatamente (it), avventatamente (it), azzardatamente (it), azzardosamente, inconsultamente (it), malcautamente (it), precipitatamente, temerariamente (it)
• Latin: audacter, audaciter, audenter, imprūdenter, temerē (la)
• Norman: hardîment
• Portuguese: precipitadamente (pt)
• Russian: опроме́тчиво (ru) (oprométčivo), поспе́шно (ru) (pospéšno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на̑гло

  Latin: nȃglo (sh)

• Swedish: förhastat (sv), obetänksamt (sv)
• Urdu: بے تحاشا (be-tahāśā)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “rashly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “rashly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.