precipitancy
- n the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
- English papers opined that French "precipitancy" had blighted the Danubian Union's chances of success.
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- Alexander Hamilton in The Conservative Voice
Having to overcome a veto provides what Hamilton calls a "salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated to guard the community against the effects of faction, precipitancy, or of any impulse unfriendly to the public good, which may happen to...