Precaution vs Precation - What's the difference?
precaution | precation |
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
* John Henry Newman
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
(transitive): To warn or caution beforehand. --.
(rare): To take precaution against. --.
(rare) A prayer or act of praying; an earnest request.
* 1881 , , History of the Church of England , Vol. 2, Routledge, p. 431:
* 1893 , Charles P. G. Scott, "English Words Which Hav Gaind or Lost an Initial Consonant by Attraction," Transactions of the American Philological Association , vol. 24, p. 123:
* 1996 , J. L. Styan, The English Stage , ISBN 9780521556361,
As nouns the difference between precaution and precation
is that precaution is precaution while precation is (rare) a prayer or act of praying; an earnest request.precaution
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ancient philosophers treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution .
- to take precautions against risks of accident
Derived terms
* precautionarySee also
* preventionVerb
(en verb)precation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Litany . . . was ordered to be sung immediately before High Mass, by the priests "with others of the choir". . . . and this solemn form of precation , like so many other things, assumed the livery of uniformity.
- The full form of the precation was God give you a good even .
pp. xiii-xiv:
- The present inquiry therefore aims to pay more than lipservice to the notion of drama as performance, and to make more than a gesture towards the idea of theatre as a composite art, one that mixes music and mime, dance and song, painting and design, poetry and narrative, and much else. It is precation and response, and seeks out evidence of the manipulation of the audience and its powers of perception.
