- a variation of precipitancy.
precipitance
Example Sentences
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"Stormy pity, and the cherish'd lure Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul."
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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
The lights we could make out now across the zenith; but owing to the precipitance of the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was impossible to see more.
From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward
This was a precipitance for which I was every way unprepared, as I had never made but one copy of the play, and had intended divers corrections and alterations.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 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
