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Webster 1913 Edition


Circumspectness

Cir′cum-spect′ness

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Noun.
Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
[Travel] forces
circumspectness
on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security.
Sir H. Wotton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Circumspectness

CIRCUMSPECTNESS

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Noun.
Caution; circumspection; vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter.

Definition 2024


circumspectness

circumspectness

English

Noun

circumspectness (uncountable)

  1. the state or quality of being circumspect
    • 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.):
      It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness.
    • 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man:
      "But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"
    • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
      If our suspicion be wholly unfounded, let his own questionable ways, not our necessary circumspectness bear the blame.