Difference between headlong and precipitant
Definitions
adverb
- with the head foremost
- in a hasty and foolhardy manner
- at breakneck speed
adjective
- with the head foremost
- excessively quick
Examples
The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong (Ps 2: 4; Job 5: 12, 13).
Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets:
Definitions
adjective
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
Examples
Such pediatric catatonia - more often found in boys than in girls - has the same characteristics, similar precipitants and the same response to treatments as adult catatonia.
While it is a statistical certainty that some Ecstasy users will present for psychiatric services, the current available data shed little light on whether Ecstasy use is a precipitant, modifier or consequence of psychiatric illness.
God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors.
