The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance.
"Once a Greech"
Evelyn E. Smith
By such slow accuracies as these are we conveyed, all our poor mortal days, from realism to romance, and with a shocking precipitance are we afterwards flung back, out of romance into realism, our natural home, again.
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
And quoth she, "O my son, 'ware precipitance, for it gendereth repentance and the slaying of them shall not escape thee.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton