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Precipitateness

noun
1.
The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.  Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness.






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"Precipitateness" Quotes from Famous Books



... been upheaved from the sea, by the fact that the rivers are all on the surface, not having had time to cut down their channels below the surrounding country. By similar reasoning, we know that the canon of the Colorado is a very old region, though the precipitateness of its banks is due to the absence of rain, for a local water-supply would cut back the banks, having most effect where they were steepest, since at those points it would move with the greatest speed. Thus the majestic canon owes its existence to two things: the ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor



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