cautelousness
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cautelousness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being cautelous.
- 1769, Samuel Johnson, “A History and Defence of Magna Charta”, in A History and Defence of Magna Charta, Dublin: James Williams, page 125:
- Now it ſeems this clauſe of abundant cautelouſneſs was not in the oath of the earls and barons, neither needed it: for if K. Stephen broke with his people, of courſe their fealty ceaſed.