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Definition of Precipitancies
1. precipitancy [n] - See also: precipitancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipitancies
Literary usage of Precipitancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... and shrieking discords and precipitancies ; and is soothing, and pensively
welcome, though sad enough, and in outward features ugly enough. ..."
2. A Study of the Drama by Brander Matthews (1910)
""Read 'Romeo and Juliet,'" he declared; —"all is youth and spring; youth with
all its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies ; — spring with its odors, ..."
3. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"... its errors and precipitancies included. On the other hand, the share of
Condillac in providing a text for Diderot's first considerable performance, ..."
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