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Precipitant

noun

An agent that causes a precipitate to form.

adjective

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation. Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous. "Hasty makeshifts take the place of planning" , "Rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion" , "Wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

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"Precipitant" Quotes from Famous Books

... practical aspects of his marriage that he had not stopped to weigh in its precipitant consummation. The problem, pointed out by Rhoda, of his absence from Taou Yuen on cruise could not be solved with the facility he had taken for granted. It was as impossible to leave her happily here—he was aware of her growing impatience with Western habit—as it would be for him to become a contented ...

— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer

... advis'd] Therefore be not precipitant; consider well what we are to do. Advis'd is the word ...

— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson

... will direct me where I shall find the best information of what is to be said on both sides. It is a subject vast in its present extent and future consequences. The imperfect hints which now float in my mind, tend rather to the formation of an opinion that our government has been precipitant and severe in the resolutions taken against the Bostonians[867]. Well do you know that I have no kindness for that race. But nations, or bodies of men, should, as well as individuals, have a fair trial, and not be condemned on ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell