regardful
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːdfʊl/
Adjective
regardful (comparative more regardful, superlative most regardful)
- Respectful. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 231:
- I […] take care for the generall, to have a regardfull reſpect of that which you leave behind you.
- (now rare) Watchful, observant. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 100:
- And euermore, when with regardfull ſight / She looking backe, eſpies that grieſly wight / Approching nigh, ſhe gins to mend her pace […].
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