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Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.

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  1. superl. Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.
  2. superl. Differing; distinct.
  3. adj. marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  4. adj. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
  5. adj. heedful of potential consequences
  6. The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement;variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, menand women. Sir T. Elyot.There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S.Faber.
  7. j:100 a. marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint