incaution

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ caution.

Pronunciation

Noun

incaution (usually uncountable, plural incautions)

  1. A lack of caution.
    • 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad, Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473:
      Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
    • 1865, William Howitt, The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand:
      Little did the members of the expedition, little did the cheering spectators on that exciting day divine the strange neglects, the strange incautions, and the consequent disasters and deaths []
    • 2008 January 24, “The Maverick Insider”, in The Guardian:
      It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution, not financial incompetence.