caution
noun
alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness.
cautioner
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a word derived from
caution.
Example Sentences
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He dying as a cautioner and public person, believers are accounted in law to be dead to sin in him.
From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by John (of Wamphray) Brown
What else he did, we learn from John Moncrieff, who was the Earl’s cautioner, or guarantee, for a large sum due by him to one Robert Jolly.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
I perhaps I might have got a cautioner, but the money I did not have.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
It admits no repentance, it speaks of no pardon, it declares no cautioner or redeemer.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
"No, I will not be silent," rejoined the apprentice, without looking round at his cautioner, but keeping his eye fixed upon Sir Giles.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
