- a variation of precipitancy.
precipitance
Example Sentences
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Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel
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
There seem no more big things of that kind available—so that I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
