incautiousness

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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

Ruth suspected that she had done a dangerous thing in mentioning the matter, and she regretted her incautiousness; though she did not see where the danger lay.

From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold

We lay till late at night by our small camp fire, and watched the terribly-beautiful scene, regretting our incautiousness or neglect, which had entailed such fearful destruction.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

Doth love's incautiousness in her So irremissible appear?

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry