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- noun   Excessive caution 
Etymologies
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hyper- + caution
			
		
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Examples
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								In 1948, Marshall refused to “play with fire” with a military response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin, and in fact voiced the hypercaution of the moment by opposing an airlift as well. Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010 
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								The government's natural hypercaution about scandal lays on another brutal layer of sclerosis: according to 
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								The government's natural hypercaution about scandal lays on another brutal layer of sclerosis: according to 
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