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onlook

noun

Etymology

From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).

  1. inherited from *lōkōn✻
  2. inherited from lōcian
  3. inherited from loken
  4. prefixed as onlook — “on + look”

Definitions

  1. The act of looking on (something)

    The act of looking on (something); observation.

    • The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.

  2. That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.

  3. One's perspective or outlook.

    • This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To look on or look at

      To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.

      • So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for onlook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA