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Webster 1913 Edition
Regardful
Re-gard′ful
(-f?l)
, Adj.
Heedful; attentive; observant.
– Re-gard′ful-ly
, adv.
Let a man be very tender and
regardful
of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South.
Syn. – Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
Webster 1828 Edition
Regardful
REG'ARDFUL
,Adj.
Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God on his heart.
Definition 2024
regardful
regardful
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Adjective
regardful (comparative more regardful, superlative most regardful)
- Respectful. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:
- I […] take care for the general, to have a regardfull respect of that which you leave behind you.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:
- (now rare) Watchful, observant. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
- And evermore, when with regardfull sight / She looking backe espies that griesly wight / Approching nigh, she gins to mend her pace […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7: