Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being heedful; attention; caution; wariness; circumspection.
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- noun The state or quality of being
heedful .
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- noun the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities
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Examples
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It also emphasizes the role that heedfulness plays in developing each, for heedfulness is what enables each strength to counteract a particular delusion that makes fear unskillful, and the mind weak in the face of its fears.
Freedom from Fear by Thanissaro Bhikkhu William Harryman 2009
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If stripped of confusion and aversion, these three elements become a positive quality, heedfulness — something so essential to the practice that the Buddha devoted his last words to it.
Freedom from Fear by Thanissaro Bhikkhu William Harryman 2009
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What should I communicate my fitness heedfulness provider in front of I gain possession of this medicine?
Enter the Bibliomancer: A new career for the CodePoet ZenMondo Wormser 2007
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What should I advertise my well-being heedfulness providers in the future I win this medicine?
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English called thirst, a work of divine vengeance, showing us that which saith the philosopher and Aulus Gellius, that it becometh us to speak according to the common language; and that we should, as said Octavian Augustus, strive to shun all strange and unknown terms with as much heedfulness and circumspection as pilots of ships use to avoid the rocks and banks in the sea.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative heedfulness in
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English called thirst, a work of divine vengeance, showing us that which saith the philosopher and Aulus Gellius, that it becometh us to speak according to the common language; and that we should, as said Octavian Augustus, strive to shun all strange and unknown terms with as much heedfulness and circumspection as pilots of ships use to avoid the rocks and banks in the sea.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Self-restraint, renunciation, and heedfulness are the three steeds of Brahman.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Knowing this, O monarch, and bearing the truths of scripture in mind, one should, with all his senses about one and without heedfulness, act like a person in fear before the cause of fear actually presents itself.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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One who acts with such heedfulness never trips, or tripping, is never ruined.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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