heedfulness

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Such heedfulness may be one of the things that Americans would like most from the U.S. banking system.

From Time Magazine Archive

Care, kār, n. anxiety, heedfulness: charge, oversight: the object of anxiety.—v.i. to be anxious: to be inclined: to have regard.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Diligence implies an earnest and constant effort to accomplish a desired end—a carefulness, a heedfulness, an industry, a close and fixed attention.

From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert

My brothers, I would relate to you a little narrative, which may greatly edify your minds, if ye with heedfulness will hear it.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Nevertheless, Lilly noticed that from now on she was treated with a certain heedfulness, from which she deduced that something was still expected of her.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann