Definitions
Reckless boldness, nerve, or daring confidence.
Word origin
From Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temeritās (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temere (“by chance, casually, rashly”). By surface analysis, temer(arious) + -ity.
Used in a sentence
“One day when he knew old Lobbs was out, Nathaniel Pipkin had the temerity to kiss his hand to Maria Lobbs.”
“Elizabeth trotted through the open door in the dusk, but becoming alarmed at her own temerity, she went quickly out again by another which stood open in the lofty wall of the back court.”
“Terror seized me, a horror of my temerity.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Reckless boldness”8 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
T_______