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

Juggernaut became conscious of a distinctly more lenient attitude towards the Rector's precipitancy.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

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

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 Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)

I could hardly be silent except I so feared precipitancy.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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 Morley, John