onlook
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onlook¹
Where it comes from
From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).
noun onlooks · on-look
- The act of looking on (something); observation. The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.
- That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
- One's perspective or outlook. This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.
onlook²
Where it comes from
From on- + look. Compare Old English onlōcian.
verb onlooks · onlooking · onlooked · on-look
- To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard. So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]
