Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With precaution.
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- adverb In
precautious manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many expect that the newly formed government led by Maoist Chairman Prachanda will precautiously think whether to maintain old mechanisms.
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How anxious to choose, and to avoid every thing, precautiously, as I may say, that might make me happy, or unhappy; yet all my wisdom now, by a strange fatality, is likely to become foolishness!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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BLOOM: _ (Reflects precautiously) _ That antiquated commode.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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How anxious to choose, and to avoid every thing, precautiously, as I may say, that might make me happy, or unhappy; yet all my wisdom now, by a strange fatality, is likely to become foolishness!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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He summed up the situation by saying he was "precautiously optimistic" about trends now surfacing.
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