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impetuosity

[ UK /ɪmpˌɛtjuːˈɒsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. rash impulsiveness

How To Use impetuosity In A Sentence

  • Youthful impetuosity and confidence has given way to caution and self-doubt, fuelled by a whole array of injuries over the years.
  • We ought to be much better cavalrymen than infantrymen, because the essential in a cavalryman is a fearless impetuosity. Battle Studies
  • But, like several of his colleagues, there is an impetuosity to his batting and he has struggled for consistency.
  • Defoe's impetuosity and foolhardiness extended to his business affairs.
  • These analogies can be taken to mean that the form of akrasia that Aristotle calls weakness rather than impetuosity always results from some diminution of cognitive or intellectual acuity at the moment of action.
  • What had drawn him to her from the very first was that fierce impetuosity in her, an integrity which had nothing to do with truth. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Astounded, she gazed in his eyes for a space, like a beautiful statue, and then suddenly burst out sobbing; and with the wonderful feminine impetuosity which only grand-souled, uncalculating women, created for fine impulses of the heart, are capable of, threw herself upon his neck, encircling it with her wondrous snowy arms, and wept. Taras Bulba
  • One small officer in his impetuosity dashed at the pig with his spear, missed him clean, and fell over on the top of him.
  • Faith! if the life we live is like the globe we inhabit -- if it revolves on its own axis, _and you're that axis_ -- there's not a flaw in your philosophy; but IF -- Now perish my impetuosity! Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
  • Oedipus -- his essential innocence, his affectionateness, his uncalculating benevolence and public spirit; -- while his impetuosity and passionateness make the sequel less incredible. The Seven Plays in English Verse
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