precipitance
Example Sentences
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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 Ellis, Havelock
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 De Quincey, Thomas
There seem no more big things of that kind available—so that I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
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
