| 单词 |
uncircumspect |
| 释义 |
unˈcircumspect, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Of persons: Not circumspect or cautious; imprudent, unwary.
1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xxiii. 173 O thou vncircumspecte soule, of howe great perell & fere myghtest thou delyuer thy selfe of nowe. 1540Elyot Image Gov. 143 If there had been a senate uncircumspect,..or an Emperour a tyranne. 1632J. Haywood tr. Biondi's Eromena 119 Yet was I not therein uncircumspect, for some of them I tooke.., others would I not take. 1669Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 157 Such like trivial imaginations, which make us so unwary in all our actions, so uncircumspect throughout the course of our lives. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 38 The evident connection between the causes of his failure and his uncircumspect philanthropic temperament.
2. Of actions, etc.: Not marked by circumspection; incautious.
1563Foxe A. & M. 605/2 Dalaber goes on, ‘..by this your vncircumspecte comminge vnto me, and speaking so before this yonge man, ye haue disclosed your selfe and vtterlye vndone me’. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iv. xi. 275 Of her owne will, with a rash and uncircumspect hastinesse, she looked upon the shoulder of the child. 1682Bunyan Holy War (1905) 220 Yet I cannot but (a little) chide you for your late uncircumspect action. |
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