attent
English
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editattent (comparative more attent, superlative most attent)
- (archaic) Attentive, heedful; intent. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 6:40:
- Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XIV:
- All patiently awaited the event
Without a stir or sound, as if no less
Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent.
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editNoun
editattent (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Attention.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So being clad unto the fields he went
With the faire Pastorella every day,
And kept her sheepe with diligent attent
Dutch
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editattent (comparative attenter, superlative attentst)
Declension
editDeclension of attent | ||||
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uninflected | attent | |||
inflected | attente | |||
comparative | attenter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | attent | attenter | het attentst het attentste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | attente | attentere | attentste |
n. sing. | attent | attenter | attentste | |
plural | attente | attentere | attentste | |
definite | attente | attentere | attentste | |
partitive | attents | attenters | — |
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editMaltese
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editBorrowed from Italian attento.
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editattent (feminine singular attenta, plural attenti)
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