Both Uses of
wary
in
Of Human Bondage
- It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastness; and the legend which he read told that a boat was always moored at the entrance to tempt the unwary, but no traveller venturing into the darkness had ever been seen again.†
Chpt 9-10unwary = not careful about possible danger or deceptionstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwary means not and reverses the meaning of wary. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He had to walk warily.†
Chpt 111-112 *warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
Definition:
careful or nervous about something