regardful
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdfʊl/
Adjective

regardful

  1. Respectful. [from 16th c.]
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., 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.
  2. (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 […].



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