precipitately
advEtymology From precipitate + -ly.
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In a precipitate manner.
- She sains herself, and the thief takes to flight so precipitately as to leave behind her a copper pan of a form never seen before.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 263:
- He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:
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- "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 63:
- Despite their pre-war pioneering work in diesel rail traction, the Germans did not precipitately dieselise their own national system as soon as post-war opportunity offered.1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 387: