temerity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Effrontery; impudence.

   He had very nearly been guilty of the temerity of arrogating to himself another title in the presence of those he most respected.

From Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temeritās (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temere (“by chance, casually, rashly”). By surface analysis, temer(arious) + -ity.

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