precipitancy
noun
the quality or state of being precipitant.
precipitance
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a variation of
precipitancy.
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a word derived from
precipitant.
precipitantadjectivefalling headlong.
Example Sentences
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Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Away they went with reckless precipitance, the cattle obeying the master hand of the celebrated raider with an implicitness which seemed to indicate a strange sympathy between man and beast.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum
This was a precipitance for which I was every way unprepared, as I had never made but one copy of the play, and had intended divers corrections and alterations.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
Thine eyes are not the youngest in the camp, Nor look they out the sharpest from thy head; But thou art ever hasty in thy speech, And ill becomes thee this precipitance.
From The Iliad by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression: the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
