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Heedful

adjective
1.
Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention.  Synonyms: attentive, paying attention, thoughtful.  "So heedful a writer" , "Heedful of what they were doing"
2.
Cautiously attentive.  Synonym: careful.  "Heedful of his father's advice"
3.
Giving attention.  Synonym: advertent.



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"Heedful" Quotes from Famous Books



... thy presence, and confess thy aid. Not fear, thou know'st, withholds me from the plains, Nor sloth hath seized me, but thy word restrains: From warring gods thou bad'st me turn my spear, And Venus only found resistance here. Hence, goddess! heedful of thy high commands, Loth I gave way, and warn'd our Argive bands: For Mars, the homicide, these eyes beheld, With slaughter red, and raging round ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
 
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... could deny what nobody knew anything about, it was decided. They sought and found the "Golden Sword," and put up with it, and in it. The supper party was, at least, merry, for Angioletto led it. He sang, he joked, made love, spent money, was wise, unwise, heedless, heedful. He charmed a grin at last into the very Captain's long face. That warrior, indeed, went so far as to drink his health in wine of Verona. He and his Olimpia—unhesitatingly his in the gaiety of the moment—drank it out of the same glass. "Love and ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
 
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... avail is prudence, if it fail Heedful to mark the purposes of Heaven! A noble man, who much hath sinn'd, some god Doth summon to a dangerous enterprize, Which to achieve appears impossible. The hero conquers, and atoning serves Mortals and ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
 
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... distance of several miles from their camps, and there formed a winter cantonment of huts. He now maintained a vigilant watch at night. Their horses, which were turned loose to graze during the day, under heedful eyes, were brought in at night, and shut up in strong pens, built of large logs of cotton-wood. The snows, during a portion of the winter, were so deep that the poor animals could find but little sustenance. Here and there a tuft of grass ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving
 
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Words linked to "Heedful" :   mindful, attentiveness, aware, regard, advertent, heed, heedless, thoughtful



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