unadˈvisedness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being unadvised; want of consideration or reflection; imprudence, rashness; an instance of this.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. 357 It is to be bileeued that Girald was bigilid (as manie othere writers bi liȝtnes and unavisidnes han be). 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 256 b, There was nothyng more unconvenable for a perfecte good Capitaine, then over muche hastyng & unavisednesse. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. cxlii. 875 How many faults do we commit through vnaduisednesse, when we thinke not on them? 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1229 By his owne vnaduisednesse..hee clouded his honour. 1681 Kettlewell Chr. Obedience (1715) 564 All his unwill'd ignorances, and innocent unadvisednesses, upon his prayers for pardon shall be abated. 1780 Bentham Princ. Legisl. ix. §16 In the case of un-advisedness with respect to any of the circumstances. Ibid. §17 Un-advisedness coupled with heedlessness, and mis-advisedness coupled with rashness. 1853 Jas. Hamilton Life Bp. J. Hall 167 The circumstance which implicated him was, at the worst, an act of unadvisedness. |