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English
Etymology
From precipitance + -y or precipitant + -cy.
Noun
precipitancy (countable and uncountable, plural precipitancies)
- Suddenness; excessive haste.
1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: A Strahan; and T Cadell ; Edinburgh: W Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VII, section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 386: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.
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