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- noun Plural form of
precipitancy .
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This is one of the many examples of the share of Diderot's energetic and stimulating intelligence, in directing and nourishing the movement of the time, its errors and precipitancies included.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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This is one of the many examples of the share of Diderot's energetic and stimulating intelligence, in directing and nourishing the movement of the time, its errors and precipitancies included.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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Read 'Romeo and Juliet'; -- all is youth and spring; -- youth with its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies; -- spring with its odours, its flowers, and its transiency; it is one and the same feeling that commences, goes through, and ends the play.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Read _Romeo and Juliet_; — all is youth and spring; — youth with its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies; — spring with its odours, its flowers, and its transiency; it is one and the same feeling that commences, goes through, and ends the play.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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