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# watchfulness

noun (no plural)

«watchfulness» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Watchfulness is careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad happens without your noticing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#m1)

### In the lessons

the careful alertness that keeps creatures safe, or that gets them caught when they are not careful enough

### Examples

- The Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x1)
- Without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x2)
- A life of watchfulness is tiring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «watchfulness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«watchfulness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/watchfulness.html) on Mova free.