- a variation of precipitancy.
precipitance
Example Sentences
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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 Stewart Edward White
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 Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
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
"See, then, O King," continued the Wazir "what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
