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Definition of Precipitance
1. Noun. The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.
Generic synonyms: Haste, Hastiness, Hurriedness, Hurry, Precipitation
Derivative terms: Abrupt, Precipitant, Precipitant, Precipitate, Precipitous, Sudden
Definition of Precipitance
1. n. 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.
Definition of Precipitance
1. Noun. (alternative form of precipitancy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precipitance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipitance
Literary usage of Precipitance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"... Pity and the cherish'd lure С Of Pomp, and proud precipitance of soul Wilder'd
with meteor fires. Ah spirit pure ' That error's mist had left thy purged ..."
2. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"... precipitance, precipitancy ; abruptness, headiness, hurry, hastiness, flurry.
2. ... precipitance ..."
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