precipitance
Etymology
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Etymology
From precipitant + -ance.
Nounprecipitance (uncountable)
- Precipitancy. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC ↗:
- I gasped, at this frightful precipitance—I was going to open with warmth against it.
- c. 1794, Jane Austen, Lady Susan:
- We have been hurried on by our feelings to a degree of Precipitance which ill accords with the claims of our Friends, or the opinion of the World.
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