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preˈcariousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being precarious: in various senses of the adj.; esp. insecurity, liability to fail.
1687Gd. Advice 59 The uncertainty and precariousness of the means of their subsistance. 1693Tyrrell Law Nat. 372 The weakness, or precariousness of which Hypothesis being discovered. 1705Blair in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 146 Assaulted and accused of countenancing the precariousness of the Clergy. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. viii, By reason of the danger of a winter voyage,..as well as the precariousness of the wind, which might possibly detain me a great while. 1755Johnson, Precarious..is used for uncertain in all its senses; but it only means uncertain, as dependant on others; thus there are authors who mention the precariousness of an account, of the weather, of a die. 1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend xii. 94 The precariousness and hardships of the military life. 1817Shelley Let. to Godwin 11 Dec., I felt the precariousness of my life. 1859Lang Wand. India 353 The precariousness of the land tenure is one of the greatest impediments to the outlay of capital by the tenant in the improvement of the land. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. §13 The complexity can evidently only increase the precariousness of printed texts. |