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
His embarrassment repeated itself in hers; she regretted her precipitancy in having praised a brother and sister as loving and happy who avoided each other and disliked to speak of their mutual relations.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Then I confess I looked round, a little alarmed at my precipitancy.
From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Weyman, Stanley John
Bourgoine, her physician, loudly exclaimed against the iniquitous precipitancy with which she was to be hurried out of existence.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
He found him as he expected, seated before his desk, and with his wonted precipitancy dashed at once into his subject.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine
