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Webster 1913 Edition


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;
as, the
precipitancy
of youth
.
“Precipitance of judgment.”
I. Watts.