Overhaste

Quick meaning: Overhaste is a noun meaning Excessive, often undue haste.

Meaning

Excessive, often undue haste.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include precipitancy, overdoing, overdiligence, overzeal, overdaring, overpresumption.

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