Meaning of Overhaste | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessive, often undue haste.

uncountable

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Examples

“The mischief arising from the overhaste of both the bodies in question⟳ in stamping with their approving mark⟳ most questionable dogmas, without full inquiry first had, is palpably shown in the position which Mr. Atherton thinks himself entitled to hold⟳ in consequence. Nothing ought to pass⟳ current with those societies but what has the genuine ring⟳ of sound⟳ science.”

“Consciousness of power has not betrayed the author into the common fault of overhaste to execute ill-matured conceptions. He has evidently taken the trouble⟳ in the first place⟳ to possess⟳ himself with a clear understanding of his own⟳ purposes and of the method in which they were to be worked out; and then, having laid down his plan⟳, he has steadily adhered to it. The result⟳ is a sound⟳, symmetrical, and well finished piece of workmanship. In form⟳ it is an autobiography.”

“Almost the only fact connected with his literary life which has come⟳ down to us is one which has been recorded, perhaps with jealousy, certainly with ill-temper, by his friend Ben Jonson — that he wrote with overhaste, and hardly ever erased a line, though it would have⟳ been better had he done so with many.”

“Touching the sophisms, even Aristotle, Rhet. setting forth of the truth, or of a patriot warning against wrong-doing and overhaste.”

“According to one of these, a young native of Friburg, who had been engaged in the battle, keenly desirous of being the first to carry⟳ home tidings of the victory, ran — the whole way—a distance of ten or twelve miles—and with such overhaste that on his arrival at the marketplace he dropped with fatigue, and, barely able to shout⟳ that the Swiss were victorious, immediately expired.”

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