precipitance

Example Sentences

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The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether—overlaid and confounded by the merely scientific wranglings to which his own inconsiderate precipitance has opened the door.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)

She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

With a precipitance that was the extreme opposite of his previous sloth, he lowered both window-blinds, and, lighting two candles, set them on the piano, where they dispersed the immediate darkness, but no more.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.

From Once a Greech by Smith, Evelyn E.