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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

... meetings and of cooeperation in useful service. There seems to have been no particular originality in the plan, but through some felicity in arrangement and opportuneness in the time it caught like a forest fire, and in an amazingly short time ran through the country and around the world. One wise precaution was taken in the basis of the organization: it was provided that it should not interfere with any member's fidelity to his church or his sect, but rather promote it. Doubtless jealousy of its influence was thus in some measure forestalled and averted. ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... sir," announced Antoine. "I'm sorry, sir, but he ran by the guard at the gate, and our man below the house stopped him. It's a precaution we've ...

— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson

... The only precaution necessary on the part of the examiners and paying clerks was, therefore, simply to satisfy themselves that the lady was Mrs. Richard Stone, the rightful payee. There being no person present to identify her she exhibited several letters addressed to herself and her ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

... the Cardinal Balue proceeded to lift the gauntlet, with such precaution as one would touch an adder—so great was apparently his aversion to this symbol of war—and presently left the royal apartment ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... possession of the traveller's baggage, which was supposed to be full of gold and silver. The sultan's astonishment may therefore be imagined when it came out that Lander had not even money enough to defray the expenses of his journey to the coast. He never found out that the servant had taken the precaution of hiding his own gold watch and those of Pearce and Clapperton about ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

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