precipitancy
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English papers opined that French "precipitancy" had blighted the Danubian Union's chances of success. at the outset, but that British "deliberate action" might yet reconcile everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could hardly be silent except I so feared precipitancy.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
"The devotion of a father's love usually takes good counsel for his own children, but the hot precipitancy of a furious husband should readily be restrained."
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
I shall represent to her all kinds of reasons for precipitancy and secrecy—temporary secrecy.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
The contingency was by no means improbable; and it was urged so strongly by Garnet, that Catesby began to regret his precipitancy in sending the message.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
This is one of the many examples of the share of Diderot's energetic and stimulating intelligence, in directing and nourishing the movement of the time, its errors and precipitancies included.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
