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.