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precipitance |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Precipitance \Pre*cip"i*tance\, Precipitancy \Pre*cip"i*tan*cy\, n. [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; as the precipitancy of youth. ``Precipitance of judgment.'' --I. Watts. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: precipitance n : the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: {abruptness}, {precipitateness}, {precipitancy}, {suddenness}]
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