boldness
noun
lack of hesitation or fear in the face of risk or danger; courage.
overboldness
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a word derived from
boldness.
Example Sentences
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His large nature, impetuously reacting from the asceticism to which he had been bred, turned to excess and overboldness in action, and an occasional coarseness of phrasing in his poems.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
J. Coming now to the point of my story, I have to relate how his overboldness was proved by his death.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
Either from overboldness in the metaphors, or from some unaptness in the material of them, I have to confess that my mind rather rebels against these stretches of poetical prerogative.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
They “advised their captain, through his overboldness, not to leave their widows and fatherless children to give him bitter curses.”
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
I was never an advocate of overboldness, but our guide erred in the other extreme.
From For The Admiral by W.J. Marx
