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Definition
thoughtful of all circumstances and consequences
- Lydgate smiled, but he was bent on being circumspect.Book 2 — Old and Young (4% in)
- He remembered Will's irritability when he had mentioned Mrs. Casaubon, and was the more circumspect.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (63% in)
There are no more uses of "circumspect" in Middlemarch.
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