incaution
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪnˈkɔːʃən/
incaution (uncountable)
- A lack of caution.
- 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad, Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473:
- Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
- 2008, "The Maverick Insider", The Guardian, 24 Jan 2008:
- It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution, not financial incompetence.
- 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad, Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473:
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