Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anxiety; solicitude.
- noun Heedfulness; caution; vigilance in guarding against evil and providing for safety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being careful.
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- noun The state of being
careful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger
- noun the quality of being careful and painstaking
Etymologies
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Examples
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Precociously conscious of the precious, inexplicable burden of selfhood, I have steered my unique little craft carefully, at the same time doubting that carefulness is the most sublime virtue.
john updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Precociously conscious of the precious, inexplicable burden of selfhood, I have steered my unique little craft carefully, at the same time doubting that carefulness is the most sublime virtue.
January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Man's own logic, his carefulness is not a direction to purge the word "seeing" from literary theory. 4
Seeing Is Reading 2005
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She was running with the kind of carefulness that told me she did not want the soup with the dumplings to spill.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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It is a most wholesome lesson for Christian workers to learn that all true work is primarily the Lord's, and only secondarily ours, and that therefore all 'carefulness' on our part is distrust of Him, implying a sinful self-conceit which overlooks the fact that He is the one Worker and all others are only His instruments.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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There is a carefulness which is inconsistent with confiding prayer to God, which excludes the spirit of filial supplication.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: I. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Practically Explained. 1789-1850 1853
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'carefulness' be better employed in scrutinizing the adverse testimony?
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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And in spite of all the insistence on carefulness and meticulousness -- well, scolding is what I call it -- the women were genuinely fond of her, calling her Mama, and always crying when she'd leave to return to the States.
Ken Wong: The Language Not Needed For Love Ken Wong 2011
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And in spite of all the insistence on carefulness and meticulousness -- well, scolding is what I call it -- the women were genuinely fond of her, calling her Mama, and always crying when she'd leave to return to the States.
Ken Wong: The Language Not Needed For Love Ken Wong 2011
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Arguably, the ratio of car insurance premiums should reflect even more accurately the comparative carefulness of women, once you forget anomalies such as the stonktastic Princess Anne, repeatedly convicted of speeding, and Katie Price, talking on her mobile at the helm of a giant horse-mover, and Helen Chamberlain, the police superintendent recently fined for driving at 79mph in a 50mph zone.
Sorry, but cheaper car insurance patronises women | Catherine Bennett 2011
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