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.