Unwary vs Cautelous - What's the difference?
unwary | cautelous |
Lacking]] caution as a result of [[naïveté or inexperience
Unprepared; not watchful
Come from a ladies' seminary (obsolete) Skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(obsolete) Cautious, careful.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 140:
As adjectives the difference between unwary and cautelous
is that unwary is lacking caution as a result of naïveté or inexperience while cautelous is skillful in trickery or deception; cunning, wily.unwary
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(er)Quotations
* 1885 — *: Three little maids who, all unwary ,Come from a ladies' seminary
Anagrams
*cautelous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts.
- Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most cautelous , all Savage.