[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being unadvised; want of consideration or reflection; imprudence, rashness; an instance of this.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 357. It is to be bileeued that Girald was bigilid (as manie othere writers bi liȝtnes and unavisidnes han be).
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 256 b. There was nothyng more unconvenable for a perfecte good Capitaine, then over muche hastyng & unavisednesse.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. cxlii. 875. How many faults do we commit through vnaduisednesse, when we thinke not on them?
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiv. (1632), 1229. By his owne vnaduisednesse … hee clouded his honour.
1681. Kettlewell, Chr. Obedience (1715), 564. All his unwill’d ignorances, and innocent unadvisednesses, upon his prayers for pardon shall be abated.
1780. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., ix. § 16. In the case of un-advisedness with respect to any of the circumstances. Ibid., § 17. Un-advisedness coupled with heedlessness, and mis-advisedness coupled with rashness.
1853. Jas. Hamilton, Life Bp. J. Hall, 167. The circumstance which implicated him was, at the worst, an act of unadvisedness.
