precipitance
- a variation of precipitancy.
- a word derived from precipitant.
Example Sentences
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The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
"See, then, O King," continued the Wazir "what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
With a precipitance that was the extreme opposite of his previous sloth, he lowered both window-blinds, and, lighting two candles, set them on the piano, where they dispersed the immediate darkness, but no more.
From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel
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 Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of
