Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incircumspection

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-cir-cum-spec-tion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of circumspection.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Compare French incirconspection.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does incircumspection mean?: Lack of circumspection.
Where does incircumspection come from?: Compare French incirconspection.

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