incautiousness

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The eloquent controversialist Bossuet and the Catholics have been careful to avail themselves of the impetuosity and incautiousness of the great German Reformer.

From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Williams, Howard

We lay till late at night by our small camp fire, and watched the terribly-beautiful scene, regretting our incautiousness or neglect, which had entailed such fearful destruction.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

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

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