precipitance

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Away they went with reckless precipitance, the cattle obeying the master hand of the celebrated raider with an implicitness which seemed to indicate a strange sympathy between man and beast.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

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

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)

The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression: the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel