precipitancy
Example Sentences
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English papers opined that French "precipitancy" had blighted the Danubian Union's chances of success. at the outset, but that British "deliberate action" might yet reconcile everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a rule, especially in the greater issues of life, little or nothing is to be gained by precipitancy.
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by Winter, John Strange
Her plighted hand was not transferred to another, when time had sanctified and mellowed regret; but with a cruel and unfeminine precipitancy.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
"The devotion of a father's love usually takes good counsel for his own children, but the hot precipitancy of a furious husband should readily be restrained."
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
Bourgoine, her physician, loudly exclaimed against the iniquitous precipitancy with which she was to be hurried out of existence.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
