"forecaution" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1882, Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, Smith, Elder & Co., page 405",
          "text": "Again, on the contrary, however much forecaution may have been taken in preparing the patient for an operation, some general disturbance follows, […]",
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          "ref": "1845, David Badham, Insect Life, William Blackwood and Sons, page 101",
          "text": "[…] that as nature had not given intelligence to these creatures, they cannot have the means of taking counsel together, of exercising forethought or forecaution, nor of learning any thing, […]",
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          "ref": "1881, Frank Leslie, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, page 644",
          "text": "They had at their disposal all the terrible enginery of secret murder, against which no human forecaution can effectually guard.",
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        "Caution in advance; precaution."
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        "(archaic, uncountable) Caution in advance; precaution."
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          "text": "[…] to cure from the latter or effect, by a forecaution and prevention of its increaſe?",
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          "ref": "1904, The Metal Worker, Plumber, and Steam Fitter, page 50",
          "text": "[…] the result is worse, and serious breakage has occurred before the job was finished, due to settling of legs because no forecaution was taken to prevent it.",
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        "A measure taken in advance to disallow misfortune; a precaution."
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        "(archaic, countable) A measure taken in advance to disallow misfortune; a precaution."
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