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overhasty

adj

Etymology

From over- + hasty.

  1. derived from *haifst✻ — “violence”
  2. derived from hastif
  3. inherited from hasty
  4. prefixed as overhasty — “over + hasty”

Definitions

  1. Too hasty.

    • I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.
    • He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.

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