† foolhardice Obs.
Forms: 5 fool hardiesse, 6 fool(e)hardise, -ize, 7 foole-hardice.
[In 15th c. folehardiesse, f. foolhardy, after hardiesse; subsequently assimilated in form to cowardice.]
= foolhardiness.
| 1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 63 Whiche by theire fole⁓hardiesse..causid the patrimonie of Lelius and Scipion to be lost. 1591 Spenser Ruins Rome xiv, With vaine fool⁓hardise Daring the foe. 1600 Fairfax Tasso v. xxiii. 79 Foole-hardice, rashnes, madnes. |