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Webster 1913 Edition


Precipitately

Pre-cip′i-tate-ly

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adv.
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Precipitately

PRECIP'ITATELY

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adv.
Headlong; with steep descent.
1.
Hastily; with rash haste; without due caution. Neither praise nor censure precipitately.

Definition 2024


precipitately

precipitately

English

Adverb

precipitately (comparative more precipitately, superlative most precipitately)

  1. In a precipitate manner.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 63,
      Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed.

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