precipitance
Example Sentences
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If his most intimate advisers had had the perspicuity to have foreseen the final outcome of such precipitance might they not have advised the Emperor to have proceeded more deliberately?
From Court Life in China by Headland, Isaac Taylor
Bohun I suspect suffered, too, from that sudden sharp precipitance into a world that knew not Discipline and recked nothing of the Granta.
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
Perhaps miscarriage of that initiatory experiment was due to precipitance, incubation of my perverse instinct being not yet complete.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.
From Once a Greech by Smith, Evelyn E.
Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
