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neglective, a. Now rare or Obs.|nɪˈglɛktɪv|
[f. neglect v. + -ive.]
Neglectful, inattentive. (Very common in 17th c.)
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1623) 1179 Shee often seemed somewhat too remisse and neglectiue in the care of her selfe. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxviii. 254 A care⁓lesse freenesse, and a kind of neglectiue easinesse. 1670Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 55 How remiss, how neglective were many in their families. 1715Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 33 The Synod found their own Presbytery neglective. 1827Lincoln Cabinet 44 While they were thus as enterprising, as Lincoln was neglective.
b. Const. of. (Also freq. in 17th c.)
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. 356 No one neglective was Of Hector's safety. 1661H. D. Disc. Liturgies 8 So wofully neglective of their duty. a1684Leighton Serm. Wks. (1868) 405 God seems neglective of his people.
Hence neˈglectively adv.; † neˈglectiveness. Obs.
1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. xlvi, And then, neglectively, Nothing at all [he offers]. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 362 Her haire..cast into a delightfull neglectiuenes. Ibid. 393 Her hayre..shee onely kept cleane, and neglectiuely wore it. 1646W. Jenkyn Remora 8 Sinfull neglectiveness of the worship of God. 1876Robinson Mid.-Yorksh. Gloss., Mislook, to overlook, neglectively. |