Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: circumspection
IPA transcription: [s,ɝkəmsp'ɛkʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: circumspection, caution
    Meaning: the trait of being circumspect and prudent
  • Synonyms: discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence
    Meaning: knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
Usage examples
  • But you know well enough, that had we been disposed, we had no opportunity for it, from your watchful care and circumspection.
  • An arrival was an important moment that required all her practised circumspection; there was so much to arrange, so much to remember, and so much to observe.
  • Louis XII was this time advancing upon Naples, not with the incautious ardour of Charles VIII, but, on the contrary, with that prudence and circumspection which characterised him.
  • It served him as a second warning of the circumspection that was necessary; and having taken leave of his friend and patron, under the pretence that "He could not live in the smoke of London," he set out for the North.
  • Caution, circumspection, prudence, desire to foresee future events so as to avert what is harmful, these desirable traits are as much a product of calling the impulse of fear into play as is cowardice and abject submission.
  • When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the Romans.