precipitately

Etymology

precipitate + -ly

adv

  1. In a precipitate manner.
    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

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