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Foolhardy. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Foolhardy a. [a. OF. fol hardi, comb. of fol foolish, FOOL a. with hardi bold, HARDY a.] Daring without judgment, foolishly adventurous or bold, rashly venturesome.

1 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 62. Nis heo to muche cang, oðer to folherdi.

2 1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 665.          Ȝyf þou were euer so fole hardy To swere grete oþys grysly, As we folys do alle day.

3 1413.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxx. 78. How dar ther ony man ben so fole hardy for to dampnen hym seluen, deceyuyng suche a persone by fauour of flaterye, or by vntrewe counceyll, sith that for grete tryst of grete trouthe he is assigned to that occupacion?

4 1508.  Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps., Wks. 104. Good lorde thy wyll was to ouercome & exclude by this maner theyr folehardy Iugement ayenst thy mercyful sentence.

5 1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. 153. Jn Prisone he is inuadet throuch the audacitie of a rasche, ferce, and fulehardie ȝoung man, and be him thair he is slane.

6 a. 1680.  Butler, Rem. (1759), II. 302. Nothing encourages him more in his Undertaking than his Ignorance, for he has not Wit enough to understand so much as the Difficulty of what he attempts; therefore he runs on boldly like a foolhardy Wit, and Fortune, that favours Fools and the Bold, sometimes takes Notice of him for his double Capacity, and receives him into her good Graces.

7 1796.  Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), II. 244. The Dons will suffer in every way for their folly, if they are really so fool-hardy as to go to war to please the French.

8 1860.  J. G. Holland, Miss Gilbert, xxiv. 418. Do not be guilty of this foolhardy business again!

9   Hence Foolhardily adv. Also Foolhardihood, † Foolhardiship = FOOLHARDINESS.

10 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 182. Vor moni makeð hire sec þuruh hire fol herdischipe.

11 1382.  Wyclif, 2 Sam. xviii. 13. If I hadde doon aȝens my soul foolhardili.

12 1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., XIX. iv. 127. Who, when they would not lend their helping hand to any man in engine-worke, nor making of bulwarkes and fortifications, used foole-hardily to sallie forth and fight most courageously, but came home fewer than they went.

13 1837.  Southey, in Quarterly Review, LIX. 306. Two brothers had the fool-hardihood to wait till midnight in the church porch, on midsummer eve, and look through the key-hole, in the expectation, according to the popular belief, of seeing all those who were to die in the course of a year from that time enter the church.

14 1879.  G. MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, xix. 102. What the books of law were, I would not foolhardily add to my many risks of blundering by presuming to recall; the history was mostly Scotish, or connected with Scotish affairs; the theology was entirely of the New England type of corrupted Calvinism, with which in Scotland they saddle the memory of great-souled, hard-hearted Calvin himself.

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