precipitancy

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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

Her enemies, however, were determined, whatever she did, to discover some cause of complaint;—if she urged it on, they would accuse her of precipitancy; if she postponed it, they would charge her with indifference.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

"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

Stella had been conclusively proved to be a vessel of abominable things; Matilda, owing to his foolish precipitancy in surrendering his right of pre-emption, had been annexed by Mr Winterton.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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