† unˈheediness Obs.
[un-1 12.]
Unheedfulness, heedlessness.
| 1486 Lichfield Gild Ord. (1920) 21 That the seid summe..by vnhedynes, blame, and neglygens of kepers..ys now diminysshed. 1576 Newton Lemnie's Complex. 23 b, Them y{supt} be phlegmatick, they helpe forward, to slouth,..sleapines, rechlesse vnheedynes. 1607 R. Wilkinson Serm. at Whitehall 9 She sailes not, but by sounding, lest by her vnheedines she runne her selfe aground. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 276 The wicked practices..whereto, through un⁓heedinesse the two young men had given great fomentation. |