- a variation of precipitancy.
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
For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
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
The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.
From Once a Greech by Evelyn E. Smith
Away they went with reckless precipitance, the cattle obeying the master hand of the celebrated raider with an implicitness which seemed to indicate a strange sympathy between man and beast.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum
