precautiouslyadv.
/prᵻˈkɔːʃəsli/, U.S. /priˈkɔʃəsli/, /priˈkɑʃəsli/ Cautiously, carefully; in a manner characterized by taking precautions; as a precaution.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [adverb] > as or with precaution
precautiouslya1711
a1711 T. Ken Edmund xii, in Wks. (1721) II. 333 Jesus himself precautiously withdrew, When persecuted by the furious Jew.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xii. 69 How anxious to choose, and to avoid every-thing, precautiously, as I may say, that might make me happy, or unhappy.
1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 510 Leaving..those laurels, destined to replace on his victorious brow hereafter..the locks precautiously plucked by austere thoughts and sur-human toils.
1880 Times 20 July 5/5 Now all arrangements for the campaign seem to have been better and more precautiously planned.
1921 A. Dobson Later Ess. 163 A clever critic once observed of a popular novelist that few writers had better painted the inside of certain characters—adding precautiously ‘so far as there is any inside’.
1964 M. Lane Night at Sea xii. 212 Ben put his injured hand precautiously behind him.
1996 North Hills (Warrenburg, Pa.) News Record 24 May a5/1 We are moving precautiously in our own institution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.a1711- non-actual
- non-adamical
- non-adaptive
- non-adaptively
- non-adaptiveness
- non-addict
- non-addictive
- non-address
- non-addresser
- non-addressing
- non-adherence
- non-adherent
- non-adjacent
- non-admissible
- non-admissibleness
- non-admission
- non-adult
- non-advertence
- non-advertency
- non-advocate
- non-aesthetic
- non-affective
- non-agent
- non-agentive
- non-aggression