rashful

English

Etymology

From rash (“hasty, impulsive”) +‎ -ful.

Adjective

rashful (comparative more rashful, superlative most rashful)

1. (now rare) Rash; hasty, precipitate.
   • 1857, James A. Maitland, The Cousins: Or, The Captain's Ward, New York: Evert D. Long, pages 381–382:

     “ […] I told him that I had the power, if he refused to do so, to make him a beggar; but I should not have carried out my threats. The young man, however, had fallen in love with Miss Denman, and, in a moment of rashful impulse, he quitted Nantucket, and I heard nothing more of him, until a few days since; […]”

Further reading

• “rashful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.