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Definition of Precipitously

1. Adverb. Very suddenly and to a great degree. "Prices rose sharply"

2. Adverb. Abruptly; in a precipitous manner. "The mountains rose precipitously from the shore"

Definition of Precipitously

1. Adverb. abruptly; in a precipitous manner ¹

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Definition of Precipitously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipitously

precipitating precipitating(a) precipitation precipitations precipitative precipitato precipitator precipitators precipitin precipitin test

precipitinogen precipitinogens precipitins precipitious precipitous precipitously precipitousness precis precise precised

precisely precisely unless preciseness precisenesses preciser precises precisest precisian precisianism precisianisms

Literary usage of Precipitously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"The flawless glacier-jewel, Lake Louise, is like a liquid sapphire set in a diadem of silvered peaks. Grand mountains rise precipitously ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"Grand mountains rise precipitously from its blue rim to the realm of ice, while the soft wraiths of their reflected forests, glaciers, cliffs, ..."

3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"The elongated form wirb its air of brooding sorrow rises from the ground in two wonderful line*, the one running down precipitously, the other sweeping ..."

4. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"... which shut in with vast rocks, from which a river falls precipitously, causing a murmur of waters to complete the charm ofthat vale. ..."

5. Testimony Taken Before the Senate Committee on Cities: Pursuant to by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, New York (State), Legislature (1891)
"T did not care to follow them too precipitously, and I went out of the side door, and by the time I got there I lost sight of them ; it was a matinee day, ..."

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1971 in view of its precipitous demobilization — George F. Kennan, Atlantic, November 1982 A mother can learn, perhaps, not to act precipitously —Carrie ..."

7. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews (1910)
"... dusk, yet clear Mellowed and mingling, yet distinctly seen, Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appeal Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, ..."

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