Word Meanings - SELF-NEGLECTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.

LIEGER
A resident ambassador. See Leger. Denham.
LIEGE
Full; perfect; complete; pure. Burrill. Liege homage (Feudal Custom), that homage of one sovereign or prince to another which acknowledged an obligation of fealty and services. -- Liege poustie Etym: , perfect, i. e., legal, power;
NEGLECTION
The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
NEGLECTFUL
Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
NEGLECTEDNESS
The state of being neglected.
NEGLECTER
One who neglects. South.
NEGLECT
disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
NEGLECTINGLY
Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
LIEGEMAN
See SPENSER
NEGLECTIVE
Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
SELF-NEGLECTING
A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
DISALLIEGE
To alienate from allegiance. Milton.