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unˈwatchful, a.
(un-1 7.)
1611Florio, Inuigilante, vnuigilant, vnwatchfull. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year ii. xx. 256 They are..incurious in their walking, unwatchfull in their circumstances. 1720A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. (1877) 118 It is not discreet nor just in Ministers..to be unwatchfull over their Flock. a1740Watts Ess. Var. Subj. (1795) 271 Every christian, even the weak and the unwatchful. c1750J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 40 You are more light and unwatchful than you used to be. 1805Wordsw. Prelude ii. 300, I..difference Perceived in things, where, to the unwatchful eye, No difference is. 1869Lowell Cathedral 213 Its once grim bulwarks, tamed to lovers' walks, Look down unwatchful on the sliding Eure.
Hence unˈwatchfully adv., -fulness.
1611Florio, Inuigilanza, vnwatchfulnesse. a1658Durham Comm. Rev. (1660) 181 There was much..unwatchfulnesse and untendernesse in both these respects before God. 1682W. Rogers Seventh Pt. Chr. Quaker 78 No wonder if the High as well as the Low come to a Loss through their unwatchfulness. 1787in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. XIX. 92 Through unwatchfulness and the depravity of my heart. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. xxxi. 354 Whether thou wilt be still watchful over thyself, when there is so much to persuade to unwatchfulness. 1867Ruskin Time & Tide (1872) 75 In summing the observation of past life not un⁓watchfully spent. |