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vigilanceDefinitions
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| vigilance | |
| 1. n. Alert watchfulness. |  |
| 2. n. Close and continuous attention. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A guard; a person set to watch. | |
Example Sentences
| Perhaps he later saw no reason to change, having charged himself with a certain crazy duty to his art, one that he believed required a particular kind of total vigilance. Even more so if an attack that should have prompted a special vigilance prompts only a glance backward. |
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