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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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
Perhaps miscarriage of that initiatory experiment was due to precipitance, incubation of my perverse instinct being not yet complete.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
A butchery, that was in a numerical sense so vast, cannot be supposed to have escaped its author in a hurry, or to be open to any of the usual palliations from precipitance or inattention.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether—overlaid and confounded by the merely scientific wranglings to which his own inconsiderate precipitance has opened the door.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
