Definition of "precipitance" [pre•cip•i•tance]

• Alternative form of precipitancy. (noun)

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• "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."
• "In the past month, government has acted with precipitance of judgment, akin to patching holes as the levy fails."
• "Accuse me not of precipitance, my dear Doctor, nor believe me capable of forgetting the wisdom of your suggestions, nor of lightly weighing those evils with which your zeal has encompassed me, though I write at this instant to confess a total contrariety of sentiment, to call back every promise of delay, and to make an unqualified avowal, that the period of caution is past!"