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Meanings of incaution in English

Portuguese
imprudência
Catalan
imprudència
Spanish
imprudencia

The trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger.

      imprudência
      Synonyms
      Examples for "incautiousness"
      Examples for "incautiousness"
      1
      I would not fatigue myself nor court disaster by incautiousness, these perilous days.
      The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
      2
      But this incautiousness in war, and this madness of zeal, is not a Roman maxim.
      The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jeru...
      3
      This is strange indeed, when your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness.
      Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
      4
      With the incautiousness of youth he openly avowed his royalist opinions in the cafe which he frequented.
      Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
      5
      I warned Laura very seriously against any precipitate attempts, for I saw it was probable this incautiousness would increase, provided it were encouraged.
      Anna St. Ives
      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