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The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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precipitancy
Word definitions for precipitancy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. suddenness; excessive haste.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness , precipitateness , precipitance , 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; ...
Usage examples of precipitancy.
Duderstadt, to favour the retreat of their countrymen under the prince de Soubise, who, with great precipitancy, made the best of their way from Erfurth to the county of Hohenstein, and from thence bent their march towards Halberstadt.
His stay in Rome only lasted three days, and then, in full state with lictors and paludamentum, after offering up prayers in the Capitol, he departed for his province with quite as much precipitancy as before.
That evening, after the day spent in Valentina's company--and she so sweet and kind to him--he began to take heart of grace once more, and his volatile mind whispered to his soul the hope that, after all, things might well be as he had first intended, if he but played his cards adroitly, and did not mar his chances by the precipitancy that had once gone near to losing him.