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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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"Precaution" Quotes from Famous Books

... felt, was a wise precaution. He didn't know what mad thing you might expect of Grandma, the Demon, but surely nothing very discreditable could occur in the presence of that innocent dog. And he would play the waiting game; make ...

— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... For example, we stop and look up and down a crowded street before starting to cross, for fear of being run over; in going out in the cold we put on our overcoats, for fear of catching cold. In fact, we hardly do anything in life without taking a precaution of some kind. These are all examples of reasonable fear, which, within bounds is a perfectly legitimate attribute of a soldier in common with other human beings. For example, we teach the men to take advantage of cover when attacking, and we dig trenches when on the defense, in both ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... indeed struck by the sight of the dangling body, but thinks it none of his business, and does not stop to interfere. No sooner has he passed than the Thief lets himself down, and running swiftly along a by-path, hangs himself with equal precaution to a second tree. This time the farmer is astonished and puzzled; but when for the third time he meets the same unwonted spectacle, thinking that three suicides in one morning are too much for easy credence, he leaves his ox ...

— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske

... use of the company, until they began to regard him with great partiality. Having traveled with them in this manner for several days, they at length reached the banks of the Ohio River. Heretofore the Indians had taken the precaution to bind him at night, although not very securely; but, on that evening, he remonstrated with them on the subject, and complained so strongly of the pain which the cords gave him, that they merely wrapped the buffalo tug loosely around his wrists, and having tied it in ...

— Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone • Cecil B. Harley

... point of protesting against such excessive precaution when the sound of voices caused all the party to crouch low among the bushes, hiding themselves in the foliage just as four Chan Santa Cruz Indians came to a halt not more than ...

— The Search for the Silver City - A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan • James Otis

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