Noun: cautel
| Singular | cautel |
| Plural | cautels |
Sample Sentences
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Perhaps he loves you now,
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And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
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The virtue of his will [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], pages 14-16:]
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Here come institution, by your blasphemous sacrifice, in all cautels and provisions of the Mass [a. 1589, William Fulke, Confutation of the Rhemish Testament:]
Nouns inflected like cautel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin cautēla, from cautus, past participle of caveō. See: Latin Nouns '
cautēla'.