precipitancy

American  

[pri-sip-i-tuhn-see] / prɪˈsɪp ɪ tən si /

Also precipitance

noun

• precipitancies
  plural

1. the quality or state of being precipitant.

2. headlong or rash haste.

3. precipitancies, hasty or rash acts.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• precipitancies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of precipitancy

First recorded in 1610–20; precipit(ant) + -ancy

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Example Sentences

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precipitancy precipitancies

English papers opined that French "precipitancy" had blighted the Danubian Union's chances of success. at the outset, but that British "deliberate action" might yet reconcile everyone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bruin made off into the timber with great precipitancy.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

Her plighted hand was not transferred to another, when time had sanctified and mellowed regret; but with a cruel and unfeminine precipitancy.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

The two proud champions fled with the utmost precipitancy and in the most rapid manner to each other.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

The disorder of his apparel and the perspiration that covered his brow bespoke the precipitancy of his return.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

This is one of the many examples of the share of Diderot's energetic and stimulating intelligence, in directing and nourishing the movement of the time, its errors and precipitancies included.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley

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