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incautiously

adv

Etymology

From incautious + -ly.

  1. derived from cautiō
  2. derived from caution
  3. inherited from caucioun — “bail, guarantee, pledge”
  4. suffixed as cautious — “caution + ous”
  5. formed as incautious — “in- + cautious”
  6. suffixed as incautiously — “incautious + ly”

Definitions

  1. In an incautious manner

    In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.

    • His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn.
    • […] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]
    • The parson explained that the dissenters were insufficiently grounded in religious learning, inappropriately eager to administer the sacraments without his help or sanction, and incautiously emotional in their worship.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA