"overhastiness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From overhasty + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|overhasty|ness}} overhasty + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} overhastiness (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being overhasty. Tags: uncountable
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          "text": "He adds a piece of information, which is very remarkable, as compared with the account given by Odeleben, of the manner in which Napoleon had passed the six weeks of the armistice, studying and reconnoitring, day after day, the country, the roads, passes, and productions of the districts between Dresden and Prague: \"The corps of the principal army marched very slowly, for at the beginning of the war it was not considered advisable to expose any portion of the army to danger by overhastiness or rashness, and besides in this advance there was no definite and fixed point before them in the line of communication of the enemy, on which the army was to concentrate its attack.\"",
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          "ref": "1895, Eugenie Marlitt, The Lady With the Rubies, E. A. Weeks and Company, Werner Company, page 326:",
          "text": "Aunt Sophie smiled good-naturedly. \"It is well for the State that you do not estimate the finances, Frau Amtsratin! It is really not as bad as you think for—or my name would not be Lamprecht! Be it observed that I only say this to spurn the accusation of boldness and overhastiness!",
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          "ref": "1922, The North American Review, North American Review Corporation, O. Everett, page 733:",
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