precipitance

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Thine eyes are not the youngest in the camp, Nor look they out the sharpest from thy head; But thou art ever hasty in thy speech, And ill becomes thee this precipitance.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

The lights we could make out now across the zenith; but owing to the precipitance of the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was impossible to see more.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

Caravan bounded to his feet with such precipitance that his chair rolled over against the chair.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Maupassant, Guy de

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

"Stormy pity, and the cherish'd lure Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul."

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron