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Undiscretion
Undiscreet Un`dis*creet", a. Indiscreet. --Chaucer. -- Un`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- -- Un`dis*creet"ness. -- Un`dis*cre"tion, n. Indiscretion.

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- Look up discretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Discretion has the meaning of acting on one's own authority and judgment. In law, discretion as to...
- Discretions, also published as Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher: Discretions, is a 1971 memoir of Mary de Rachewiltz, an Italian-American translator and...
- In common law, the principle of prosecutorial discretion allows public prosecutors a wide latitude to decide whether or not to charge a person for a crime...
- In public administration, administrative discretion refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators...
- Look up discretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Discretion is the ability to act or make a decision according to one's own choice. Discretion may also...
- Judicial discretion is the power of the judiciary to make some legal decisions according to their discretion. Under the doctrine of the separation of...
- exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use of enforcement discretion, such...
- unconditionally to the besiegers is traditionally phrased as "surrender at discretion." If there are negotiations with mutually agreed conditions, the garrison...
- Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography is an autobiography by a former Prime Minister of India Inder Kumar Gujral and the only one to be written by a...
- Christian theology, the age of accountability (also called the age of discretion) is the age at which children are deemed to be accountable for their beliefs...