precipitance
Example Sentences
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He couldn't get over it, he said, their dropping in on him like this, with a divine precipitance, out of their blue.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
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 Henry Handel Richardson
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 Thomas De Quincey
"See, then, O King," continued the Wazir "what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
