precipitance

Example Sentences

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Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

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

"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

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 De Quincey, Thomas

His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)