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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He had got about half through his sermon, and every eye in that congregation was fixed upon him, and every ear attent to his burning words, when suddenly he stopped.
From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Finnemore, Joseph
Mackay, meanwhile, to envy all attent, Untaught to spare, unable to relent, Walks in our town on needles and on pins, And in a mean, revengeful spirit—grins!
From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose
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 Ingelow, Jean
With large, meek eyes Fixed on that Maid and Babe, he stood as child That, gazing on some reverent stranger's face, Nor loosening from that stranger's hold his palm, Listens his words attent.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
They knelt there in the darkness, attent for some minutes.
From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville
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