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unobˈservant, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
†1. Unattentive in service. Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Inofficieux, vnofficious, vnobseruant, vnseruiceable.
2. Not observant; not taking notice.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xxiv. 247 The unobservant Multitude may have some general confus'd apprehensions of [etc.]. 1775Ash, Disobedient,..unobservant of lawful authority. 1782V. Knox Ess. xc. (1819) II. 173 An unexperienced and unobservant man. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. i. 34 No unobservant travellers they, but well Of what they there had learnt they knew to tell. 1825Scott Talism. iv, [This] fear..made her behave with indifference, as if unobservant of his presence. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. v, Vandeloup looked idly at all this beauty with an unobservant eye.
absol.1898‘Merriman’ Roden's Corner iv, The unobservant may pass it by without distinguishing it.
Hence unobˈservantly adv.
[1847Webster.] 1868Mrs. Whitney P. Strong xvii, I have not read the new style of novel and magazine writing unobservantly. |