heed
verb (used with object)
to give careful attention to.
Example Sentences
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Such heedfulness may be one of the things that Americans would like most from the U.S. banking system.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Cedric spoke again, his words being pronounced with the same slow heedfulness with which the Lord of Gilroy had uttered his threat a moment since.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
Then Jenny asked after his day’s work—a county matter, interesting to all the magistracy, and their womankind in their degree; and Eleonora listened in silence, watching with quiet heedfulness Frank’s mother and brother.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
But Wishart, taking the priest in his arms, said, "Whatsoever hurts him shall hurt me; for he hath done me no mischief, but much good, by teaching more heedfulness for the time to come."
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
Robert was thankful for her heedfulness, and owned himself tired, dismissing his sister with a blessing that had in it a tone of protection.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
