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noun

Precaution n.

Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. "They (ancient philosophers) treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution."

A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.

verb

Precaution v. t.

To warn or caution beforehand.

To take precaution against. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Precaution'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Precaution" Quotes from Famous Books

... have heretofore been had in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Terry in your United States Circuit Court have become matter of public notoriety, and I deem it my duty to call your attention to the propriety of exercising unusual precaution, in case further proceedings shall be had in that case, for the protection of His Honor Justice Field, or whoever may be called upon to hear and determine the matter. Of course, I do not know what may be the feelings or ...

— Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State • Stephen Field; George C. Gorham

... present situation, but considered a close prisoner and kept with the greatest security. It is well to be careful. There are many rumors afloat anent a rescue, which may be but idle talk. Still, when dealing with a foe every precaution should be used that there is no weakness in our defenses of ...

— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison

... With precaution I would go up the side of my own particular corpse, and would feel her as cold as ice itself and as slippery under my feet. My cold berth would swallow up like a chilly burial niche my bodily shivers ...

— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad

... he took up carelessly a square business-like envelope, addressed to him in a scrawly, illiterate fist. The letter that he took out of it was a strange jewel to repose in so rude a casket. It also was from Kuryong—from Ellen Harriott, who had taken the precaution of addressing it in a feigned hand so that the postmaster and postmistress at Kiley's Crossing, who handled all station letters, would not know that she was corresponding with Blake. The letter was a great contrast to Mrs. Gordon's. It was a girl's love letter, a gushing, ...

— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... Aunt Patricia! But please don't worry. We are not going into any dangerous neighborhoods. The drive will not begin for many weeks. In any case there will be no retreat. Yet indeed we mean to take every possible precaution and at no time will we be near the German line. It is good of you to think I am worth worrying over, but this ...

— The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor • Margaret Vandercook

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