- a variation of precipitancy.
precipitance
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That does not mean, and has nothing to do with, 'proud precipitance of soul,' nor haste in forming pregnant resolves.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.
From Once a Greech by Evelyn E. Smith
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
If his most intimate advisers had had the perspicuity to have foreseen the final outcome of such precipitance might they not have advised the Emperor to have proceeded more deliberately?
From Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland
It would end there, in hand-shakings and in frigid ceremony, this friendship to which Tanqueray had lent himself with a precipitance that resembled passion and a fervour that suggested fire.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
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