† cautionistn.
Obsolete. rare.
One who affects caution.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [noun] > cautious person
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pussyfoot1907
safety-firster1915
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piker1929
a1656 R. Loveday Lett. (1659) 33 Like some over-provident Cautionists.
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n.a1656- to be or lie on one's back
- to be or live in cotton-wool
- to be or live in cottonwool
- to be or look shy on or at
- to be or look slippy
- to be or put in the wrong
- to be or to fall at a square
- to be or to fall at square
- to be or to have in laudation
- to be out
- to be out after a person's blood
- to be out after blood
- to be out at elbow(s
- to be out for
- to be out for a person's blood
- to be out for blood
- to be out in one's reckoning
- to be out like a light
- to be out of here
- to be out of it
- to be out of mind
- to be out of mourning
- to be out of one's reckoning
- to be out of one's skin
- to be out of one's way