precipitancy

• Chewing and humming and slouching behind her shades, she went to see the act of Brother Erasmus THIRTEEN A certain precipitancy was the very poise of his soul. —  To Play the Fool
• Though we cannot wonder at this relinquishing of a long-cherished scheme when we consider the character of the Indians, yet it would be impossible to account for the appearance of precipitancy, and even terror, with which their retreat was accompanied, did we not perceive it to be the first of a series of similar artifices, designed to draw on their enemies to their own destruction. —  Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone
• Thus the "rift of difference" was cleft deeper and deeper between them; and, chiefly through Kenrick's pride and precipitancy, a disagreement which might at first have been easily adjusted became a serious, and threatened to become a permanent, quarrel Power, did you repeat what I told you about Kenrick to any one?" —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• He had none of Sheridan's precipitancy, and did not believe in violating, under any circumstances, principles of war taught by the books. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• Although therefore, great Emperor, we blame the honest Macer for his precipitancy, yet it ought to be, and is, the determination of us all to yield obedience to no law which violates the law of Heaven. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century

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