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Precipitancy
{
Pre-cip′i-tance
,Pre-cip′i-tan-cy
, }Noun.
[From
Precipitant
.] The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation;
“Precipitance of judgment.” as, the
. precipitancy
of youthI. Watts.
Definition 2024
precipitancy
precipitancy
English
Noun
precipitancy (plural precipitancies)
- Suddenness; excessive haste.
- 1759 — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, page 337
- Though this involuntary falsehood may frequently be no mark of any want of veracity, of any want of the most perfect love of truth, it is always in some degree a mark of want of judgment, of want of memory, of improper credulity, of some degree of precipitancy and rashness.
- 1759 — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, page 337