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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.
[in and circumspection.] Want of circumspection; heedlessness.

Definition 2024


incircumspection

incircumspection

English

Noun

incircumspection (uncountable)

  1. 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.