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temerity
English
Etymology
temer(arious) +? -ity, from Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temerit?s (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temer? (“by chance, casually, rashly”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??m???ti/, /t??m???ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /t??m???ti/
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
temerity (countable and uncountable, plural temerities)
- (uncountable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
- Synonyms: audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness
- 1569, Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum, T. Marshe (London),
- Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me.
- (countable) An act or case of reckless boldness.
- 1910, Edith Wharton, "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 48 (Sept),
- Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.
- 1910, Edith Wharton, "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 48 (Sept),
- (uncountable) Effrontery; impudence.
- Synonyms: brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpah
Related terms
- intemerate
- temerarious
- temerary
- temerous
Translations
Further reading
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “temerity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- temerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “temerity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "temerity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- "temerity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “temerity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
- temerity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- temerity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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determination
English
Etymology
From Middle English determinacion, determynacioun, from Old French determinacion, from Latin d?termin?ti?.Morphologically determine +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??t??m??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
determination (countable and uncountable, plural determinations)
- The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
- Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 13:
- So should that beauty which you hold in lease
- Find no determination: then you were
- Yourself again after yourself's decease ...
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 13:
- Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
- The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
- (countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
- (countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
- A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
- (countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
- The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
- The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
- The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
Danish
Noun
determination c (singular definite determinationen, plural indefinite determinationer)
- determination
Declension
Further reading
- “determination” in Den Danske Ordbog
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