attent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of attent
1275–1325; Middle English < Latin attentus attentive (past participle of attendere ), equivalent to atten ( d )- ( see attend) + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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I wish these may please you, I shall be gratified if they do, pray write me, I will attent to all your Commands.
From Ten American Girls From History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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 The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Now, mark,—or, as Horatio says, 'Season your admiration for awhile, With an attent ear, till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these same pages, This marvel to you.'
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 by Various
And I on downcast lashes unreproved Could look as long as pleased me; while, the rays Of moonlight round her, she her fair head bent, In modest silence to my words attent.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
The old Druid priests were not dead; unseen and afar, they could still influence, and they who doubted this, had only to go and sit silent and attent in one of their deserted temples.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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