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incaution

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈkɔːʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aciinnotuStarts with IEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger

Word origin

From in- + caution.

Used in a sentence

  • Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
  • Little did the members of the expedition, little did the cheering spectators on that exciting day divine the strange neglects, the strange incautions, and the consequent disasters and deaths […]
  • It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution, not financial incompetence.

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