watchingness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Is it not then, moreover, preposterous to affirm that the state of watchingness, inquietude, struggle, knowing that the enemy is ever in ambush for the soul,—a state in which the Christian is ceaselessly kept—is one that begets pride, when its natural consequence cannot but be humility?"
"Beulah's mother came over with her silent watchingness and leaned over her pale daughter."

From watching + -ness.

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