All 4 Uses of
temerity
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest temerity with a manner of extreme discretion.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- She had been awe-struck at her past temerity, and was struggling to make amends without thinking whether the sin quite deserved the penalty she was schooling herself to pay.†
Chpt 22-24
- The truth was, that as she now stood—excited, wild, and honest as the day—her alluring beauty bore out so fully the epithets he had bestowed upon it that he was quite startled at his temerity in advancing them as false.†
Chpt 25-27
- She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(temerity) boldness -- typically to say something others consider rude or upsetting