precipitance

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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)

If his most intimate advisers had had the perspicuity to have foreseen the final outcome of such precipitance might they not have advised the Emperor to have proceeded more deliberately?

From Court Life in China by Headland, Isaac Taylor

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

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

Caravan bounded to his feet with such precipitance that his chair rolled over against the chair.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Maupassant, Guy de