Meanings
- uncountableLack of circumspection.
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An unexpected way of delusion, and whereby he more easily led away the incircumspection of their belief. Which fallacy he might excellently have acted before the death of Saul; for that being within his power to foretell, was not beyond his ability to foreshew: and might have contrived signs thereof through all the creatures, which visibly confirmed by the event, had proved authentick unto those times, and advanced the Art ever after.
1646, Thomas Browne, chapter XI, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book I
Origin
Compare French incirconspection.
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