impetuosity
noun
the quality or condition of being impetuous.
impetuosities
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pluralof impetuosity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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John Richard Yoho, a young Annapolis-and-Pensacola-trained officer of the regular Navy, who understands the circuitous ways of bureaucracy, tempers these impetuosities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from his own irritating impetuosities, Fiorello LaGuardia's worst handicap last week was the fact that for millions in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
It would teach me caution in contending with the passions of another, and showed me that there is a limit which the impetuosities of anger will sometimes overstep.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
