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reckfulness
reckfulness
English
Noun
reckfulness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution.
- 1843, The metropolitan:
- Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: [...]
- 2009, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season:
- When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know. I'm talking to myself.'
- 1843, The metropolitan: