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cautelous
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cautelousadjective
Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
cautelousadjective
Cautious, careful.
Etymology: From cauteleux.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Cautelousadjective
Etymology: cauteleux, Fr.
Palladio doth wish, like a cautelous artisan, that the inward walls might bear some good share in the burden. Henry Wotton.
Of themselves, for the most part, they are so cautelous and wily headed, especially being men of so small experience and practice in law matters, that you would wonder whence they borrow such subtilties and sly shifts. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
Your son
Will or exceed the common, or be caught
With cautelous baits and practice. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.
Webster Dictionary
Cautelousadjective
caution; prudent; wary
Cautelousadjective
crafty; deceitful; false
Etymology: [F. cauteleux, LL. cautelosus. See Cautel.]
Anagrams for cautelous »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cautelous in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cautelous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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- cautelousSpanish
- prudentFrench
- cautelousIndonesian
- ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆಯKannada
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