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precipitancies

precipitancies is the plural of precipitancy.

Meaning of precipitancy

Noun

precipitancy (countable and uncountable, plural precipitancies)

  1. Suddenness; excessive haste.
    • 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.1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co....

Questions about precipitancies

What is precipitancies the plural of?
Precipitancies is the plural of precipitancy.

Words near precipitancies in the dictionary

  1. precipitability
  2. precipitable
  3. precipitable water
  4. precipitance
  5. precipitances
  6. precipitancies
  7. precipitancy
  8. precipitant
  9. precipitantly
  10. precipitantness
  11. precipitants

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