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precipitance|prɪˈsɪpɪtəns|
[f. as next: see -ance.]
Precipitant action or quality.
1. Very swift downward or onward movement; headlong fall or speed. rare.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 291 Thither they [waters] Hasted with glad precipitance. 1691E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Philos. 107 It was not a precipitance from a more lofty to a more low. 1827Southey Hist. Penins. War II. 5 The English in the precipitance of their flight had not marched upon Ferrol. Ibid. 769 There had been no alarm, no confusion, no precipitance upon the march.
2. Headlong action of any kind, or the quality of such action; great haste, violent hurry; esp. excessive or unwise haste, hastiness, rashness.
1725Watts Logic ii. iv. §5 A rashness and precipitance of judgment and hastiness to believe something on one side or the other. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. iv. §49 One..misses his mark by circuity, the other by precipitance. 1839Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) VIII. lii. §61. 360 His precipitance and arrogance..accelerated the catastrophe. 1907R. Ellis Lect. Elegiae in Mæcenatem 11 The approbation of Augustus, who never judged with precipitance. |