foolhardice

English

Alternative forms

• foolhardise
• foolhardize

Etymology

From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.

Noun

foolhardice (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Foolhardiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.