regardful
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːdfʊl/
Adjective
regardful (comparative more regardful, superlative most regardful)
- Respectful. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- I […] take care for the general, to have a regardfull respect of that which you leave behind you.
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- (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:
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