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

Etymology

Origin of precipitancy

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

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

But he fled with the utmost precipitancy, uttering the name of the incomparable princess of Babylon, and swearing by the immortal gods, that she was far handsomer than the Venetian girls.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Then I confess I looked round a little alarmed at my precipitancy.

From When Love Calls by Stanley John Weyman

That idea made precipitancy positively imperative; and by the next morning each of the young men had fully made up his mind to take the first opportunity of asking Isabella Walters to be his wife.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen

It was very galling to have to wait so long, his fingers itched to touch her dollars, but he was wise enough to see that he would gain nothing by precipitancy.

From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

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