spectation
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spectation (uncountable)
- (archaic, rare) Regard; aspect; appearance.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
- (rare) The act of watching something; observation.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 34:
- the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner […]
Further reading[edit]
- “spectation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.