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Webster 1913 Edition
Incircumspection
In-cirˊcum-spec′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
incirconspection
.] Lack of circumspection.
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Incircumspection
INCIRCUMSPEC'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
incircumspection
incircumspection
English
Noun
incircumspection (uncountable)
- Lack of circumspection.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “XI”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book I:
- 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 thereof through all the creatures, which visibly confirmed by the event, had proved authentick unto those times, and advanced the Art ever after.
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