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adjective

Precipitous adj.

Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.

Headlong; as, precipitous fall.

Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. "Marian's low, precipitous 'Hush!'"

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Etymology of 'Precipitous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Precipitous" Quotes from Famous Books

... of 17 inhabited islands and one uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets; strategically located along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlantic; precipitous terrain limits habitation to small ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... borders it below, and the same is the case above the Bayou Pierre. To land an army at such a place, when its only means of marching upon the country was through this narrow cut, of about one hundred feet in width, with high, precipitous sides, forming a complete defile for half a mile, and where five thousand men could have made its defence good against fifty thousand, is certainly as little evidence of military genius as was the permission of them to pass through it without an ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... was seen to keep alive suspicion; no ships of any description were encountered, save a couple of English frigates, each of which replied to the private signal and exchanged numbers with the Tremendous; and on the evening of the tenth day out the lofty, precipitous cliffs of the ...

— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

... Spion Kop was perhaps the most terrible, as it was the most disastrous. It was called Spion Kop, or Spying Mountain, because it was from this eminence the old Boer trekkers spied out the land in the days gone by. It was more than a hill—it was a mountain, and a mountain with a most precipitous ascent. To climb it meant hauling oneself up from one rock to another. It was a task that required all a strong man's strength. Yet up it went our men without a moment's hesitation. It was almost like climbing a house side. But one man helped another, the stronger ...

— From Aldershot to Pretoria - A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa • W. E. Sellers

... When o'er precipitous crests of mountain-walls Leapt up broad heaven the bright morning-star Who rouseth to their toils from slumber sweet The binders of the sheaf, then his last sleep Unclasped the warrior-son of her who brings Light to the world, the Child of Mists of Night. Now swelled his mighty heart ...

— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus

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