wariness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WARINESS, noun Caution; prudent care to foresee and guard against evil. The road was so slippery, and the danger so great, that we were obliged to proceed with wariness To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.
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