looking on
noun
Observation or contemplation, especially when uninvolved or detached; an act or instance of this; in early use in †to give (a person) the looking on: to observe (a person) without becoming involved in what he or she is doing ( obsolete ).
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Henry Medwall (b. 1462), playwright.
- conte
- contemn
- contemner
- contemplate
- contemplate one's navel
- contemplation
- contemplative
- contemplatively
- contemplator
- contemporaneity
- contemporaneous
- contemporaneously
- contemporaneousness
- contemporarily
- contemporariness
- contemporary
- contempt
- contemptibility
- contemptible
- contemptibly
- contempt of court
- contemptuous
- contemptuously
- mauvais sujet
- mauvais ton