circumspectness
nounEtymology From circumspect + -ness.
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the state or quality of being circumspect
- It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness.1865, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.):
- "But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man:
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- If our suspicion be wholly unfounded, let his own questionable ways, not our necessary circumspectness bear the blame.1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: