英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌsɜːkəmˈspɛkʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌsɚkəmˈspɛkʃən/

名詞

circumspection (countable and uncountable, plural circumspections)

1. Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
2. Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.
   • 1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 128:

     As if this were not enough, CAW has failed to utilize even his limited sources with diligence and circumspection; to demonstrate this point, I will briefly note inadequacies in the data adduced by CAW.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “circumspection”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “circumspection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.