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imˈpetuousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being impetuous; impetuosity.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 46 Hastyly he went whedyr the ympetuousnes of the malicious woodenes ympellid hym. c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 83 Helpyng the shyp agaynst the impetuousnes of the storme. 1636Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 56 We shall soon run into all extremities of evil with the greatest impetuousness that can be. 1675Art Contentm. iv. xv. 199 The impetuousness of our desires. 1711W. King tr. Naude's Ref. Politics iv. 130 Those great rivers which flow with such impetuousness. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 7 Polemarchus has the frankness and impetuousness of youth. |