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precautious, a.|prɪˈkɔːʃəs|
[f. precaution: see -ous and cautious.]
Using precaution; displaying previous or provident caution or care.
1713Steele Guardian No. 147 ⁋1 This precautious way of reasoning and acting has proved..an uninterrupted source of felicity. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §116 (1740) 93 It was not the Mode of the Court, in those Days, to be very penetrant, precautious, or watchful. 1871G. Meredith H. Richmond II. 177 She was precautious to have her giant to protect her from violence.
Hence preˈcautiously adv., in a precautious manner, as a precaution.
a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 333 Jesus himself precautiously withdrew, When persecuted by the furious Jew. 1747Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xii. 77 How anxious to choose and to avoid everything, precautiously, as I may say, that might make me happy, or unhappy. 1921A. Dobson Later Ess. 163 A clever critic once observed of a popular novelist that few writers had better painted the inside of certain characters—adding precautiously ‘so far as there is any inside’. 1922Joyce Ulysses 534 Bloom. (Reflects precautiously.) 1964M. Lane Night at Sea xii. 212 Ben put his injured hand precautiously behind him. |