precipitance

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The lights we could make out now across the zenith; but owing to the precipitance of the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was impossible to see more.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

Thine eyes are not the youngest in the camp, Nor look they out the sharpest from thy head; But thou art ever hasty in thy speech, And ill becomes thee this precipitance.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

It would end there, in hand-shakings and in frigid ceremony, this friendship to which Tanqueray had lent himself with a precipitance that resembled passion and a fervour that suggested fire.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

"Stormy pity, and the cherish'd lure Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul."

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

With a precipitance that was the extreme opposite of his previous sloth, he lowered both window-blinds, and, lighting two candles, set them on the piano, where they dispersed the immediate darkness, but no more.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel