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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

heediness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhiːdɪnəs/

Etymology

From heedy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being heedy.
    • And evermore that craven coward knight / Was at his back with heartless heediness, / Waiting if he unwares him murder might. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26: