onlook
Noun
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Noun
onlook (plural onlooks)
- The act of looking on (something); observation.
- 1966, Baptist Historical Society, The Baptist quarterly, volume 21, page 103:
- The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.
- 1966, Baptist Historical Society, The Baptist quarterly, volume 21, page 103:
- That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
- (rare) One's perspective or outlook.
- 2004, Richard Briggs, Words in Action:
- This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.
- 2004, Richard Briggs, Words in Action:
onlook (onlooks, present participle onlooking; past and past participle onlooked)
- (intransitive) To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.
- 2008, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions:
- So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]
- 2008, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions:
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