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

The haste and the joy went hand in hand, and I was soon equipped, though shocked at my own precipitance in sending before I was already visible.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

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)

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

The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether—overlaid and confounded by the merely scientific wranglings to which his own inconsiderate precipitance has opened the door.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas