Both Uses of
circumspect
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Some rash acts of my past life have taught me that a watched woman must have very much circumspection to retain only a very little credit, and I do want and long to be discreet in this!†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(circumspect) thoughtful of all circumstances and consequences