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 *
Definition:
something that causes something else -- such as causing precipitation (rain) or a drug interaction