precipitately

comparative more precipitately · superlative most precipitately

1. In a precipitate manner.

   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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   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

   "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

   Synonyms: precipitantly