precipitance

English

Etymology

From precipitant +‎ -ance.

Noun

precipitance (usually uncountable, plural precipitances)

  1. Precipitancy. [from 17th c.]
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
      I gasped, at this frightful precipitance—I was going to open with warmth against it.
    • c. 1794, Jane Austen, Lady Susan:
      We have been hurried on by our feelings to a degree of Precipitance which ill accords with the claims of our Friends, or the opinion of the World.
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