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incircumspection

incircumspection noun: lack of circumspection.

Noun

incircumspection (uncountable)

  1. Lack of circumspection.
    • An unexpected way of delusion, and whereby he more easily led away the incircumspection of their belief. Which fallacy he might excellently have acted before the death of Saul; for that being within his power to foretell, was not beyond his ability to foreshew: and might have contrived signs...1646, Thomas Browne, chapter XI, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book I

Origin of incircumspection

Compare French incirconspection.

Questions about incircumspection

What does incircumspection mean?
Incircumspection means lack of circumspection.
What part of speech is incircumspection?
Incircumspection is a noun.

Words near incircumspection in the dictionary

  1. incircles
  2. incircling
  3. incircumscriptible
  4. incircumscription
  5. incircumspect
  6. incircumspection
  7. incircumspectly
  8. incirrate
  9. incirrates
  10. incisal
  11. incise

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