heedfulness

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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

The king should always, with heedfulness, cherish that devoted servant who abstains from doing what is injurious to his master and who always does what is for his good.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

In the evil of his own times St Paul sees a special reason for heedfulness: “Walk not as unwise, but as wise, buying up the opportunity, because the days are evil.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Another source of anxiety was saved to him; viz., constant heedfulness as to the working of the interlacement of his lines—i. e., their running, as it were, under and over one another.

From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby

It awakened attention in the thoughtless, and composed the frolic and the gay into unbroken heedfulness.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William