attent
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- attently adverb
Etymology
Origin of attent
1275–1325; Middle English < Latin attentus attentive (past participle of attendere ), equivalent to atten ( d )- ( attend ) + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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USA Today reported that Minneapolis police were not allowed to attent the rally in their uniforms, so they wore, "Cops For Trump" t-shirts.
From Fox News
Women who weave in hope the daily web, Who leave the deadly depths of passion pure, Who hold the stormy powers of will attent, As Heaven directs, to act, or to endure; No multitude strews branches in their way, Not in their praise the loud arena strives; Still as a flameless incense rises up The costly patience of their offered lives.
From Project Gutenberg
Attent towards God, benign towards men, upright within, and prizing life, he found, not defiance and despair, but perennial quickening and encouragement, whatever problems darkened round his life.
From Project Gutenberg
Under the spell the Sea grows calm, Listing attent his witching psalm; Under the spell the air grows mild, Breathing soft as sleeping child.
From Project Gutenberg
While her body was sleeping in this sweet hallucination of the senses, her mind was attent with a marvellous activity.
From Project Gutenberg
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