precipitance

Example Sentences

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The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.

From Once a Greech by Smith, Evelyn E.

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

Bohun I suspect suffered, too, from that sudden sharp precipitance into a world that knew not Discipline and recked nothing of the Granta.

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

The lights we could make out now across the zenith; but owing to the precipitance of the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was impossible to see more.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

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