incautiousness

Example Sentences

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"The incautiousness of these conspirators has already saved you, empress," said Lestocq.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

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

Ruth suspected that she had done a dangerous thing in mentioning the matter, and she regretted her incautiousness; though she did not see where the danger lay.

From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold

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

Doth love's incautiousness in her So irremissible appear?

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry