Crossword clues for precipitance
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; as, the
precipitancy of youth. ``Precipitance of judgment.''
--I.
Watts.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of precipitancy English)
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.