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incaution|ɪnˈkɔːʃən| [f. in-3 + caution, after L. incautus, etc.] Want of caution; carelessness, heedlessness, unwariness.
1715–20Pope Iliad xxiii. 415 Lest thro' incaution failing, thou may'st be A joy to others, a reproach to me. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 439 That disease..quickly spreads, from incaution, to the houses of their more opulent neighbours. 1884Horner Florence (ed. 2) I. xxi. 312 The accusation arose from the incaution of one of the monks. |