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precipitateness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being precipitate; precipitation; hastiness.

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  • noun The state of being precipitate.

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  • noun the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

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Examples

  • In this sense, the first of Descartes's rules of method in the Discourse is an Academic principle, perhaps the only one: to avoid precipitateness and prejudice and to rely only on one's own ability to discern the truth.

    This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

  • Laughing a little, pulling at his blond mustache in a gesture of conquest, his kindling eyes glinting down at her, "You must forgive the precipitateness -- of a lover," he murmured.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • She climbed Mount Hough, but she did not find out what sort of a fellow the lookout man was, for Jack heard her puffing up the pack trail and retired, with the precipitateness of a hunted fox, to his niche between the boulders.

    The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905

  • Stewart had appeared so abruptly, he towered so dominantly, that a stranger would have expected a general precipitateness of personality and speech to go with his looks.

    All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

  • She had found him cursing, had kept him at bay, and he had already had evidence of the danger of precipitateness in her case.

    When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

  • In the corridor that morning Vona had shown that too much precipitateness alarmed her; he might go too far in five more stanzas.

    When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

  • It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • By similar reasoning, we know that the canon of the Colorado is a very old region, though the precipitateness of its banks is due to the absence of rain, for a local water-supply would cut back the banks, having most effect where they were steepest, since at those points it would move with the greatest speed.

    A Journey in Other Worlds 1894

  • By similar reasoning, we know that the canon of the Colorado is a very old region, though the precipitateness of its banks is due to the absence of rain, for a local water-supply would cut back the banks, having most effect where they were steepest, since at those points it would move with the greatest speed.

    A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888

  • bank requires homeowners insurance earthy latest precipitateness

    Think Progress » Brokaw: Hussein Execution ‘Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare Out Of The Old American West’ 2007

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