neglective
English
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editneglective (comparative more neglective, superlative most neglective)
- (archaic) Neglectful.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Common-wealth of the Mammalukes Described, Presenting Us with Many Unexampled Remarkables”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 202:
- [I]t is a wonder they ſhould be ſo neglective of their own children.
References
edit- “neglective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.