precipitance
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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 Havelock Ellis
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 Guy de Maupassant
But Bonaparte lived to lay in ruins even his personal interest in this great edifice of empire; and that entirely by his own desperate presumption, precipitance, and absolute defect of self-command.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
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 Sir Hugh Walpole
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 Thomas De Quincey
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