heedfulness

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.

I. First of all, upon the one side, heedfulness is enjoined.

My brothers, I would relate to you a little narrative, which may greatly edify your minds, if ye with heedfulness will hear it.

Then Cedric spoke again, his words being pronounced with the same slow heedfulness with which the Lord of Gilroy had uttered his threat a moment since.

Yet thou mayest be very delicate in some point, where delicateness is not all essential, and in some quick impulsive hour, omit thy fullest heedfulness somewhere where heedlessness were most fatal.