temerarious
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of temerarious
1525–35; < Latin temerārius, equivalent to temer ( e ) blindly, heedlessly + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Bernard Shaw finished editing and returned a collection of 100-odd Shaw sayings to Cyril Clemens, a temerarious admirer from Kirkwood, Mo. Shaw denied some of the items, okayed others, rewrote a few more.
From Time Magazine Archive
It might seem temerarious for an individual to buck the world's greatest oil companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had patronised, snubbed, or encouraged High Mobsmen of more temerarious habit, had profited by their exploits, and had read of their convictions and sentences with placid interest in the morning papers.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Recovering my self-possession, I asked if there were modes of transit by which I could safely visit this temerarious and remote people.
From The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Primarily and supremely man is always the pioneer of life, adventuring onward into the unknown, alone with his own temerarious, dauntless soul.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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