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preˈcipitousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being precipitous.
†1. Hastiness, rashness, precipitateness. Obs.
a1660Hammond Serm. Prov. i. 22 Wks. 1684 IV. 576 Precipitousness, as Trismegistus defines it, µανίας εἶδος, a species of madness in one place,..a kind of drunkenness in another. 1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 572 Much of this precipitousness in judging must in candour be put down to Niebuhr's youth.
2. The quality of being precipitous as a cliff.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xii. (1859) 286 The left or western bank of the narrow entrance to the harbour..ran out in all its precipitousness and beauty. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. viii. 224 Where a vertical wall of granite rises into the air, it may for a long while retain its precipitousness. |