overboldness

They “advised their captain, through his overboldness, not to leave their widows and fatherless children to give him bitter curses.”

His large nature, impetuously reacting from the asceticism to which he had been bred, turned to excess and overboldness in action, and an occasional coarseness of phrasing in his poems.

The Major, standing, turned and saw, faltering with conscious overboldness on the threshold, a tawny figure whose shoulders stared through the rags of a coarse cotton shirt; the man of all men to whom he was just then the most unprepared to show patience.

The fair girl knitted her brows in a frown at his overboldness.

J. Coming now to the point of my story, I have to relate how his overboldness was proved by his death.