- a variation of precipitancy.
precipitance
Example Sentences
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The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance.
From Manalive by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Cullum, Ridgwell
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)
