• Regardful

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdfÊŠl/

    Origin

    From regard + -ful.

    Full definition of regardful

    Adjective

    regardful

    1. Respectful. from 16th c.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8: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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