incautiousness
Example Sentences
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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 Howard Williams
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 Saint Aquinas Thomas
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 Amanda Minnie Douglas
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 Thomas Holcroft
I well remember how, one day, through my incautiousness, I very nearly made the end of a St. Sebastian.
From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
