cautioning

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of caution

noun

  1. The act of giving a warning.
    Whilst the daylight lasted, he treated her cautionings with apparent indifference. The darkness of night is the time for fear. As the gloom of evening set in, he grew nervous. 1872, Augustus Mayhew, Paved with Gold

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