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precipitance

noun

Etymology

From precipitant + -ance.

  1. derived from *kap-✻ — “a head”
  2. derived from *preh₂-✻ — “before; in front”
  3. derived from praecipitāns
  4. borrowed from praecipitans — “hasty, rash”
  5. derived from precipitant — “acting hastily, hasty, rash; acting, happening, or moving rapidly; pressing”
  6. borrowed from précipitant
  7. suffixed as precipitance — “precipitant + ance”

Definitions

  1. Precipitancy.

    • I gasped, at this frightful precipitance—I was going to open with warmth against it.
    • We have been hurried on by our feelings to a degree of Precipitance which ill accords with the claims of our Friends, or the opinion of the World.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at precipitance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at precipitance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at precipitance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA