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/wˈɒtʃfəlnəs/
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NOUN
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the process of paying close and continuous attention
vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue
wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter -
vigilant attentiveness
he keeps a weather eye open for trouble
How To Use watchfulness In A Sentence
- It was not discovered by the severe indagation and watchfulness of ministers of state from foreign intelligence, -- the usual way of discovering such plots. The Sermons of John Owen
- While the combined use of Hypericum with orthodox medications has even shown an increased favorable response, it is advisable to exert some cautious watchfulness with the prolonged usage of St. Johnswort with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI). THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
- In collating books in two or more volumes double watchfulness is needed to guard against a missing signature, which may have its place filled by the same pages belonging to another volume -- a mixture sometimes made in binderies, in "gathering" the sheets, and which makes it necessary to see that the signatures are right as well as the pages. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
- There is another annoyance -- the risk of valuable cattle being houghed or otherwise mutilated; a risk calling for incessant watchfulness. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
- Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
- Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
- Needless to say, these measures were generally foiled by the watchfulness of the soldiery; so poker, pontoon, crown-and - anchor and the like continued to flourish, along with housie-housie.
- Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
- Her accentuation of the disciples' spiritual lethargy is all the more striking because she praises her female readers for displaying watchfulness, the very virtue that the disciples lack.
- They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness. The Complete Father Brown