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circumspectness en · NOUN

Etymology

From circumspect + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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:
    • If our suspicion be wholly unfounded, let his own questionable ways, not our necessary circumspectness bear the blame. 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: