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/kˈɔʃənˌɛri/ Listen

adjective

Cautionary adj.

Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

Given as a pledge or as security. "He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands."

Wary; cautious. (Obs.)

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"Cautionary" Quotes from Famous Books

... she cut dirt was cautionary; she cleared stumps, ditches, windfalls and every thing, and made a straight track of it for home as the crow flies. Oh, she was a dipper: she fairly flow again, and if ever she flagged, I laid it into her with the ash saplin, and away ...

— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... Judge Chandler, bowing with a significant smile and cautionary wink, while he threw a sidelong glance towards Bart, whom the wary eye of the judge had detected in slightly changing his position, so as to bring his ear more directly towards the speakers—"our witnesses and quarrelling suitors in court ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... toward his father's house. The preacher began to deliver some cautionary remarks, but the young man burst from him, threw open the ...

— Romance of California Life • John Habberton

... the Court's own making. Whether because of the difficulty of amending the Constitution or for cautionary reasons, the Court took the position, as early as 1851, that it would reverse previous decisions on constitutional issues when convinced they were erroneous.[2] An outstanding instance of this nature was the decision in the Legal Tender cases, in 1871, reversing the decision ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... the neighbouring kingdoms. No equal number of men could have been found in Ireland, at that day, with an equal amount of knowledge of foreign and domestic politics. Many of them had spent years upon the Continent, while the French Huguenots held their one hundred "cautionary towns," and "leagues" and "associations" were the ordinary instruments of popular resistance in the Netherlands and Germany. Nor were the events transpiring in the neighbouring island unknown or unweighed by that grave ...

— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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