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発音

• IPA: /ɪmˈpɹuːdn̩s/
• ハイフネーション: im‧pru‧dence

名詞

imprudence (usually uncountable, plural imprudences)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
   • 1861, Jonathan Elliot, Debates of State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. I, page 422:

     [Hamilton were to have said:] nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

2. (countable) An imprudent act.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:

     Ah: my dear—Madam there is the great mistake—'tis this very conscious Innocence that is of the greatest Prejudice to you—what is it makes you negligent of Forms and careless of the world's opinion—why the consciousness of your Innocence—what makes you thoughtless in your Conduct and apt to run into a thousand little imprudences—

   • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)‎:

     At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.

   • 1891, Francois Coppee, Ten Tales‎:

     Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences.

   • 1903, S.C. Hill, Three Frenchmen in Bengal‎:

     This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.

   • 1906 – 1921, John Galsworthy, “Encounter”, in The Forsyte Saga, volume 1:

     He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.

同意語

(lack of prudence): indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imprudence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “imprudence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.