the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. 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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being precipitant; rash haste; headlong hurry.
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n. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
Word Usage
"Precipitate, I know, she has always been reckoned; but her precipitance is of kin to her noblest virtues; it springs but from the unsuspicious frankness of an unguarded, because innocent nature."