incircumspect
English
Etymology
in- + circumspect
Adjective
incircumspect (comparative more incircumspect, superlative most incircumspect)
- Not circumspect; careless; reckless.
- 1849, William Tyndale, edited by Henry Waler, Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures, Together with the Practice of Prelates, Cambridge: The University Press, page 93:
- Our fashions of eating make us slothful, and unlusty to labour and study; unstable, inconstant, and light-mannered; full of wits, after-witted (as we call it), incircumspect, inconsiderate, heady, rash, and hasty to begin unadvisedly […].
Further reading
- “incircumspect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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