Obs. [OF. fol hardiement foolish daring.] = FOOLHARDINESS.

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[Le Manuel des Pechiez, 1336, in R. Brunne, Handl. Synne (1862), 23.

        Home qe par fol hardiement
Jure par deu horriblement.]

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, VI. 336.

        Vorschip Extremyteis has twa;
Fule-hardyment the formast is,
And the tothir is cowardiss.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. xxvi. (1869), 17. Michel is he of foolhardiment and of surquideoures thinkinge.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, II. (1822), 204–5. The consul reprochit thaim, first, of thair ful hardiment, and syne of thair cowarty.

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