precipitances

Updated: May 27, 2025

Yea, many of us have ourselves cast in lets and impediments, obstructive to the cause, by our defections divisions and disorders against common consent, and precipitances, without common consent even of our brethren adhering to the testimony. Many a divisive motion hath not been counted dangerous, of those which tended to divide us from the Covenanted cause.

The Reformed Presbytery - The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and: Solemn League and Covenant: With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They: Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared: With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The: Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia,: October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of: the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and: Positions Respectively

What she was then most surely aware of was that she was on the very edge of something; it was a quite physical sensation, as though she had been walking over mist-soaked downs and had suddenly hesitated, to find herself looking down along the precipitances of jagged black rock. It was "jagged black rock" over which she was now peering.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral

Besides, the immense flock of sheep interested him at first. His duties were simple. By day he helped to guide the sheep gently to their feeding and in their search for water; by night he took his turn at guarding from wolves. His sleep was broken often, even when not on guard. They were such timid folk, these sheep; their fears passed easily into destructive precipitances.

Hamlin Garland - The Eagle's Heart