watchfulnesse

English

Noun

watchfulnesse (countable and uncountable, plural watchfulnesses)

1. Obsolete spelling of watchfulness.
   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:

     By all which wee ſee the neceſſitie of an holy and religious feare, ſtirring vs to watchfulneſſe, and the extreme danger of carnall ſecuritie.