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#120318 01/17/2004 4:53 PM
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A word I never saw before, but easy to understand.
"What might not be behind those green panels! Gamesters at play; cunning rogues baiting their traps with subtle skill; beauty in love with courage, and thus planning to be sought by it; danger, death, love, disappointment, ridicule--any of these might respond to that temerarious rap."

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Definition: \Tem`er*a"ri*ous\, a. [L. temerarius. See
{Temerity}.]
Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong;
audacious; reckless; heedless. -- {Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly}, adv.

I spake against temerarious judgment. --Latimer.






#120319 01/19/2004 11:47 AM
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Although I've never used 'temerarious,' I have the related 'temerity,' a favorite!



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