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Noun

impetuosity (usually uncountable, plural impetuosities)

  • The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
    • ✤ She had however another motive, beside her obedience, to accompany the old gentleman in the chase; for by her presence she hoped in some measure to restrain his impetuosity, and to prevent him from so frequently exposing his neck to the utmost hazard.1
  • The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence.
    • ✤ Again his lordship began his long and deliberate perusal, while Henrietta watched the slow motion of his eyes with a degree of impetuosity she could scarcely repress.2

Etymology

From English impetuous +‎ -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French.

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Footnotes

  1. 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV: ↩

  2. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Request Refused”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 297: ↩

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