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Answer for the clue "The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning ", 12 letters:
precipitance

Word definitions for precipitance in dictionaries

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)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness , precipitateness , precipitancy , suddenness ]

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.