precipitancy
Example Sentences
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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 Murfree, Mary Noailles
She trembled at the thought of her precipitancy.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
It was very galling to have to wait so long, his fingers itched to touch her dollars, but he was wise enough to see that he would gain nothing by precipitancy.
From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)
But he fled with the utmost precipitancy, uttering the name of the incomparable princess of Babylon, and swearing by the immortal gods, that she was far handsomer than the Venetian girls.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
