Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Cautelous quality: a. craftiness; b. wariness.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XV. xlii. 395. Be they with never so much cautelousnesse and subtill circumspection clouded.
a. 1624. Bp. M. Smith, Serm. (1632), 156. For cautelousnesse to looke ere we leape.
1657. Baxter, Present Th., 39. A very great cautelousness … would be necessary.
