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precipitance

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pre·cip·i·tan·cy  (pr-sp-tn-s) also pre·cip·i·tance (-tns)
n.
1. The quality of being precipitant.
2. Action or thought marked by impulsiveness or rash haste.
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Noun1.precipitanceprecipitance - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness, precipitousness, abruptness
haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation - overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
Translations
precipitance, precipitancy
n (= hastiness) → Hast f, → Eile f; (= overhastiness) → Voreiligkeit f, → Überstürztheit f, → Überstürzung f


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Bennet this morning, that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself-- and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
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