The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.
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There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
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She knew that there was no precipitance-noinconsequence-withHim.
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Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance.
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Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.
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A little over-precipitance may ruin all.
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At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.
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I started- Iwasout of breath- Igasped ,atthis frightful precipitance-Iwas going to open with warmth against it.
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There seem no more big things of that kind available-sothat I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen.
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The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance.
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Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act.
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They were such timid folk, these sheep; their fears passed easily into destructive precipitances.
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There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
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She knew that there was no precipitance-noinconsequence-withHim.
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Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance.
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Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.
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A little over-precipitance may ruin all.