Today's Word "temerity"
Foolhardy contempt of danger
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temerity \tuh-MER-uh-tee\ (noun) - Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger; rashness.
"Then, he had the temerity, the ivory-tower temerity, if I may be so bold, as to suggest that there are younger, and less well-known writers than I who should be given precedence in the course." -- Gilbert Sorrentino, 'Mulligan Stew'
Temerity comes from Latin temeritas, from temere, blindly, rashly.
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