precipitance

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For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

A butchery, that was in a numerical sense so vast, cannot be supposed to have escaped its author in a hurry, or to be open to any of the usual palliations from precipitance or inattention.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

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

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)