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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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