impetuously

adv

impetuously

adv

Etymology From impetuous + -ly.

1

In an impetuous manner; with sudden force

  • And downe the shower impetuously doth fall, Like that which men the Hurricano call...1627, Michael Drayton, Battaile of Agincourt:
  • But it was recollected that he had killed the second one rather impetuously with a mallet, and altogether in such an unneat and bungling manner as to excite considerable comment; […]1869, The Overland Monthly, volume 2, page 270:
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  • The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.25 October 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian:

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