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Meanings of incaution in English

Portuguese
imprudência
Catalan
imprudència
Spanish
imprudencia

The trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger.

imprudência
Usage of incaution in English
1
Nervousness or incaution on the part of Miss Grayson might betray much.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
2
The incaution of Catiline's accomplices in Gaul and Italy, XLII.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
3
He determined to pay a visit to Mr. Ketch, and reproach him with his incaution.
The Channings: A Story
4
Meanwhile, Gradasso was bleeding from many wounds, and his rage and incaution increased every moment.
Legends of Charlemagne
5
A plentiful crop of snow blindness due to incaution-thesufferers Evans, Bowers, Keohane, Lashly, Oates-invarious degrees.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
6
Perhaps she was really frightened, now that her brave attempt to lull me into incaution had failed.
The Thing from the Lake
7
Three senior economists at the IMF, an organisation not known for its incaution, published a paper questioning the benefits of neoliberalism.
The Guardian
8
She had confided to Primrose with a sudden burst of uncharacteristic incaution that she seemed doomed to become an old man's darling.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
9
The delay was still further extended by the issue of a new charter, and with the usual incaution of the secretary of state.
The History of Tasmania, Volume I
Translations for incaution
Portuguese
imprudência
Incaution through the time