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Incaution

noun
1.
The trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger.  Synonym: incautiousness.






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"Incaution" Quotes from Famous Books



... to misery, the tongue to deceit, the eye glows with all the luxuriance of pleasure, and the whole countenance presents an animated picture of health and intelligence illumined with delight. The playfulness or incaution of youth may demand correction, or produce momentary pain; but the tears of 23 infancy fall like the summer dew upon the verdant slope, which the first gleam of the returning sun kisses away, and leaves the face of nature tinged with a blush of exquisite ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... the danger to which he was exposed from a stroke of that weapon, it had not yet struck him in such a way as to inflict a wound. Meanwhile, Gradasso was bleeding from many wounds, and his rage and incaution increased every moment. In his desperation he lifted Durindana with both hands, and struck so terrible a blow full on the helmet of Orlando, that for a moment it stunned the paladin. He dropped the reins, ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch



Words linked to "Incaution" :   carelessness, unwariness, incautiousness, imprudence, sloppiness, caution



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