incautiousness
Example Sentences
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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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Walter Thornbury
Doth love's incautiousness in her So irremissible appear?
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
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 John Ruskin
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 Samuel Smiles
