precipitance
Example Sentences
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He couldn't get over it, he said, their dropping in on him like this, with a divine precipitance, out of their blue.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
This was a precipitance for which I was every way unprepared, as I had never made but one copy of the play, and had intended divers corrections and alterations.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
That does not mean, and has nothing to do with, 'proud precipitance of soul,' nor haste in forming pregnant resolves.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
