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Definition of Precipitateness

1. Noun. The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.

Definition of Precipitateness

1. Noun. The state of being precipitate. ¹

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Definition of Precipitateness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipitateness

Literary usage of Precipitateness

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

1. Holiday Rambles in Ordinary Places by Richard Holt Hutton (1880)
"For us, we did not turn a single thought on Monmouth and his ill-fated precipitateness; we were thinking too much of that other bit of ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... to hold out the hope that the ordinary type-tests will decide whether a boy needs encouragement in precipitateness or in hesitancy. ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... republicanism and the revolutionary precipitateness of French politics, did not prevent his rise to distinction, although his promotion was interfered ..."

4. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself. People 'who are always laughing; ..."

5. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1883)
"... free mee from the Imputation of precipitateness in too positively determining an Affayre of that Might, without his Privity. For the other part of your ..."

6. Holiday Rambles in Ordinary Places by Richard Holt Hutton (1880)
"For us, we did not turn a single thought on Monmouth and his ill-fated precipitateness; we were thinking too much of that other bit of ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... to hold out the hope that the ordinary type-tests will decide whether a boy needs encouragement in precipitateness or in hesitancy. ..."

8. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... republicanism and the revolutionary precipitateness of French politics, did not prevent his rise to distinction, although his promotion was interfered ..."

9. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself. People 'who are always laughing; ..."

10. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1883)
"... free mee from the Imputation of precipitateness in too positively determining an Affayre of that Might, without his Privity. For the other part of your ..."

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