Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case, and to natural or probable consequences, with a view to ascertain the correct or safe course of conduct or to avoid undesirable results; watchfulness; wariness; caution: as, “sly circumspection,”
- noun Synonyms Vigilance, thoughtfulness, forecast, deliberation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
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- noun
Attention to all thefacts andcircumstances of acase ;caution ;watchfulness ;vigilance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being circumspect and prudent
- noun knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's the man's lesson in circumspection that did it.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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It's the man's lesson in circumspection that did it.
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That may be, but a bit of circumspection is in order, too.
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Second baseman Fernando Vina said circumspection is inevitable.
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He had little to lose, but he had everything to gain; and being a patient man, he resolved to gain all he could by circumspection -- in other words, by acting according to his nature, rather than by risking himself in a bold course of action for which he was wholly unsuited.
Saracinesca 1881
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This, it seems to us, is a situation that, even in today's media environment, called for the kind of circumspection and restraint that WCBS and others showed in 1992.
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Thus the counterculture offers historians the opportunity to study the foundational gender assumptions of American society at that time closest to our own when men articulated their sexual politics absent the kind of circumspection that radical-feminist criticism now inspires in some circles. 24
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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And I certainly don't remember that kind of circumspection in the run up to the meltdown.
Arianna Huffington: Tim Geithner, CNBC, and the Second Coming of Known Unknowns 2009
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That kind of circumspection seems to characterize a lot of reporters 'experiences in Baghdad.
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That kind of circumspection seems to characterize a lot of reporters 'experiences in Baghdad.
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