Usage Note
Précipitamment implies rushed, reckless haste rather than merely fast movement. It comes from the adjective précipité ('hasty, rash'), which also gives the noun précipitation — used in the plural précipitations to mean rainfall in weather reports.
Examples
"Il est parti précipitamment sans explication."
Natural Translation
He left hastily without explanation.

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