Both Uses of
precipitant
in
Pride and Prejudice
- When you told Mrs. Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself—and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?†
p. 48.1
- At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.†
p. 48.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(precipitant as in: precipitant drug) something that causes something else -- such as causing precipitation (rain) or a drug interaction
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Precipitant is sometimes interchanged with various senses of precipitate, but beyond this sense of something causing something else, the word precipitant is seldom used.