precipitance
English edit
Etymology edit
From precipitant + -ance.
Noun edit
precipitance (usually uncountable, plural precipitances)
- Precipitancy. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (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.