Definition & Meaning | English word WATCHFULNESS

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Definitions of WATCHFULNESS

1. The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.

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Examples of Using WATCHFULNESS in a Sentence

• The moon is named after Titan Hyperion, the god of watchfulness and observation, and the elder brother of Cronus (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Saturn).
• show the way to awaken and develop attention and consciousness, to attain that state of watchfulness which is the hallmark of sanctity.
• "Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair said: Torah leads to watchfulness; watchfulness leads to alacrity; alacrity leads to cleanliness; cleanliness leads to abstention; abstention leads to purity; purity leads to piety; piety leads to humility; humility leads to fear of sin; fear of sin leads to holiness; holiness leads to prophecy; prophecy leads to the resurrection of the dead".
• Curiously for so famous a character, Mrs Grundy never actually appears in the play which introduced her, but is the continual object of the boastful Dame Ashfield's envious watchfulness, as is shown in the very first scene:.
• After World War I halted county cricket (Mead was rejected from active service because of varicose veins), Mead's list of achievements grew, as his always-remarkable watchfulness and superb footwork made him the complete master of bowlers such as Tich Freeman who were deadly against batsmen of poorer technique.
• The sunburst designs were used to symbolize progress, while winged griffons depicting integrity and watchfulness flank each sunburst.
• Furthermore, several anti-fascist organizations were created after the riots, such as the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (Watchfulness Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals, created in March 1934) which included philosopher Alain, ethnologist Paul Rivet and physicist Paul Langevin.
• The Watchfulness Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals (Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, CVIA) was a French political organization created in March 1934, in the wake of the February 6, 1934 riots organized by far right leagues, which had led to the fall of the second Cartel des gauches (Left-Wing Coalition) government.
• Kurys' fondness for that time of fumbling and outgrowing is as fresh today as it was when it heralded a perceptive new filmmaking talent, especially because underneath these affectionately extracted remembrances is an unshakeable sisterly bond — of admiration, exasperation and watchfulness — that gives the story of Anne and Frédérique a deeper hold.
• He several times tries to enter the hospital to suffocate her but is repeatedly foiled, by the watchfulness of an elderly patient and a series of interruptions by the nurse's boyfriend, an expectant father and the watchman and dog on their rounds.
• On the other hand, Henry VII strove throughout his reign to discipline the nobility by imposing on them severe financial penalties, often on the flimsiest of pretexts, to such an extent that in the last years of his reign the nobility have been described as living in a perpetual atmosphere of "watchfulness, fear and suspicion".
• Examples of a Maqam, arranged in an ascending seven-level progression, include: "Repentance" (Tawb), "Watchfulness" (Wara), "Renunciation" (Zuhd), "Poverty" (Faqr), "Patience" (Sabr), "Trust" (Tawakkul), and "Satisfaction" (Rida).
• Descriptors include "one competent in watchfulness", "one of perturbable nature", "the wrathful and the vengeful", "the jealous and the avaricious", a "member of the elect (arhat)" etc.
• The two standing figures' watchfulness creates a sense of foreboding that presages their heroic demise at the battle of Roncevaux Pass.

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