Watchfulness
['wɔtʃfəlnis]
Definition
(noun.) vigilant attentiveness; 'he keeps a weather eye open for trouble'.
(noun.) the process of paying close and continuous attention; 'wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter'; 'vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue'.
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Examples
- But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His watchfulness of my guardian was incessant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was very kind to her and grateful for her love and watchfulness over the boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Profound silence and meditation on Caroline's part, and a sly watchfulness on Martin's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I would have delayed; I wished to recommend watchfulness to Perdita, but his presence restrained me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ursula hated him for his cold watchfulness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whenever it would have been out of tune, and out of time, his patient devotion and watchfulness came into play, and made him an admirable nurse. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was nothing revealed by the many eyes that looked at him but watchfulness and eagerness; there was no visible menacing or anger. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was a time of uninterrupted watchfulness. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And yet for all his watchfulness he was never depressed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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