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The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
  2. n. a lack of caution in practical affairs
  3. The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence. Mickle.
  4. The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution,circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion;inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guiltyof an imprudence.His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence. Mickle.
  5. n:100 n. a lack of caution in practical affairs