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Cautel vs Cautelous - What's the difference?

cautel | cautelous | Derived terms |

Cautelous is a related term of cautel.

Cautelous is a derived term of cautel.



In obsolete terms the difference between cautel and cautelous

is that cautel is caution; prudence; wariness while cautelous is cautious, careful.

As a noun cautel

is deceit.

As an adjective cautelous is

skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.

cautel

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) deceit
  • *1602 : , act 1 scene 3 lines 14-15-16
    • Perhaps he loves you now,
    And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
    The virtue of his will
  • (obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness
    • (Fulke)

    Derived terms

    * cautelous

    cautelous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts.
  • (obsolete) Cautious, careful.
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 140:
    • Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most cautelous , all Savage.

    Related terms

    * cautel * cautelously * cautelousness