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Example Sentences

"Curse on my precipitance!" he cried, throwing his arms round me.

Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.

The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.

The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.

His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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