incautiousness

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Thus incautiousness and incircumspection are included in "thoughtlessness"; lack of docility, memory, or reason is referable to "precipitation"; improvidence, lack of intelligence and of shrewdness, belong to "negligence" and "inconstancy."

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I warned Laura very seriously against any precipitate attempts, for I saw it was probable this incautiousness would increase, provided it were encouraged.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

Of faithfulness I have no doubt, for I know that you are a noble, but inexperience I fear, and incautiousness.

From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Giffard had been captured in a moment of incautiousness, but the sights and the wantonness had fired his blood and roused a spirit of retaliation.

From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

His head and hand worked well together, and he seldom had to fight his way out of dangers into which his own incautiousness had led him.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter