a. (UN-1 7.)
1611. Florio, Inuigilante, vnuigilant, vnwatchfull.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, II. xx. 256. They are … incurious in their walking, unwatchfull in their circumstances.
1720. A. Petrie, Rules Good Deportm. (1877), 118. It is not discreet nor just in Ministers … to be unwatchfull over their Flock.
a. 1740. Watts, Ess. Var. Subj. (1795), 271. Every christian, even the weak and the unwatchful.
c. 1750. J. Nelson, Jrnl. (1836), 40. You are more light and unwatchful than you used to be.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, II. 300. I … difference Perceived in things, where, to the unwatchful eye, No difference is.
1869. Lowell, Cathedral, 213. Its once grim bulwarks, tamed to lovers’ walks, Look down unwatchful on the sliding Eure.
Hence Unwatchfully adv., -fulness.
1611. Florio, Inuigilanza, vnwatchfulnesse.
a. 1658. Durham, Comm. Rev. (1660), 181. There was much … unwatchfulnesse and untendernesse in both these respects before God.
1682. W. Rogers, Seventh Pt. Chr. Quaker, 78. No wonder if the High as well as the Low come to a Loss through their unwatchfulness.
1787. in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc., XIX. 92. Through unwatchfulness and the depravity of my heart.
1860. Trench, Serm. Westm. Abb., xxxi. 354. Whether thou wilt be still watchful over thyself, when there is so much to persuade to unwatchfulness.
1867. Ruskin, Time & Tide (1872), 75. In summing the observation of past life not unwatchfully spent.
