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The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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precipitance
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness , precipitateness , precipitancy , suddenness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precipitance \Pre*cip"i*tance\, Precipitancy \Pre*cip"i*tan*cy\, n. [From Precipitant .] The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of precipitancy English)
Usage examples of precipitance.
Immediately the Mountains huge appeer Emergent, and thir broad bare backs upheave Into the Clouds, thir tops ascend the Skie: So high as heav'd the tumid Hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of Waters: thither they Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowld As drops on dust conglobing from the drie.