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I warned Laura very seriously against any precipitate attempts, for I saw it was probable this incautiousness would increase, provided it were encouraged.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

With the incautiousness of youth he openly avowed his royalist opinions in the cafe which he frequented.

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Smiles, Samuel

Thus incautiousness and incircumspection are included in "thoughtlessness"; lack of docility, memory, or reason is referable to "precipitation"; improvidence, lack of intelligence and of shrewdness, belong to "negligence" and "inconstancy."

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Yet let us not, therefore, blame the inherent love of facts, but 198 the incautiousness of their selection, and impertinence of their statement.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

His head and hand worked well together, and he seldom had to fight his way out of dangers into which his own incautiousness had led him.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter