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/nəglˈɛkt/ /nɪglˈɛkt/ Listen

noun

Neglect n.

Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. "To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came."

Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Habitual carelessness; negligence. "Age breeds neglect in all."

The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected. "Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect."

Synonyms: Negligence; inattention; disregard; disesteem; remissness; indifference. See Negligence.

benign neglect A deliberate policy of minimizing public discussion of a controversial issue (e.g. by the president) on the theory that excessive discussion in itself is harmful or counterproductive.

verb

Neglect v. t. (past & past part. neglected; pres. part. neglecting)

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to allow to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. "I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs." "This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste."

To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

Synonyms: To slight; overlook; disregard; disesteem; contemn. See Slight.

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... I feel as if I couldn't leave him to anybody but myself. He seems so weak now; a little neglect might ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... Before all, never neglect to practise every morning, regularly, proper singing exercises through the whole compass of the voice. Do it with painful seriousness; and never think that vocal gymnastics weary the singer. On the contrary, they bring refreshment and power of endurance to him who will become master of ...

— How to Sing - [Meine Gesangskunst] • Lilli Lehmann

... let the suggestions of timidity overpower your better reason: the danger of neglect can be but as the probability of the obligation, which, when you consider it with freedom, you find very little, and that little growing every day less. Open your heart to the influence of the light, which, from time to time, breaks in upon you: when scruples importune you, which you, in your ...

— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson

... supplication, he caused the pestilence to cease, and sent Gad the prophet to him, and commanded him to go up immediately to the thrashing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, and build an altar there to God, and offer sacrifices. When David heard that, he did not neglect his duty, but made haste to the place appointed him. Now Araunah was thrashing wheat; and when he saw the king and all his servants coming to him, he ran before, and came to him and worshipped him: he was by his lineage ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... continued until we really turn away from our crooked paths. Therefore as we wish that none of this Land may flatter themselves in their evil wayes, but repent and amend, so we desire our Brethren of England to consider what hath been the bitter fruits of their slow progresse in and neglect of the Work of Reformation, and of their connivance at and complying with Sectaries, and to do no more so, but that whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven, it be diligently done for the House of the ...

— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

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