Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-CIP'I-TANCE, or PRE-CIP'I-TAN-CY, n. [from precipitant.]

1. Headlong hurry; rash haste; haste in resolving, forming an opinion or executing a purpose without due deliberation. Hurried on by the precipitance of youth. – Swift. Rashness and precipitance of judgment. – Watts.
2. Hurry; great haste in going. – Milton.