observe

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If God so loved us--observe, the stress of the argument lies on this very point: so loved us!

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  1. transitive verb To be or become aware of, especially through careful and directed attention; notice.
  2. transitive verb To watch attentively: observe a child's behavior.
  3. transitive verb To make a systematic or scientific observation of: observe the orbit of the moon.

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  • And observe, also, that we have in the previous context, 'Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord_,' which evidently implies that the light of which my text speaks is not natural to men, but is the result of the entrance into their darkness of a new element Now I do not suppose that we should be entitled to say that Paul here is formally anticipating the deep teaching of the Apostle John that Jesus Christ is '_the Light of men,' and especially of Christian men. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • A wise man would deliberate--observe, compare, reflect; and a sure conviction would come of that course Well, now, pretty Peggy Lacey, pretty as she was, was not aggressively disposed. —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
  • You may observe, as an almost unexceptional character in the "sagacious wisdom" of the Protestant clerical mind, that it instinctively assumes the desire of power and place not only to be universal in Priesthood, but to be always purely selfish in the ground of it. —  Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
  • "She made me ante up ten quid this time," he would observe--expecting sympathy Well, it's ten pound to the good for you, you boozing little owl," would be the reply. —  Tom Gerrard
  • It is this mutilation, observe, which is the very sign manual of the plague; joined, in the artistic forms of it, with a love of thorniness--(in their mystic root, the truncation of the limbless serpent and the spines of the dragon's wing. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
 

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  1. Middle English observen, to conform to, from Old French observer, from Latin observāre, to abide by, watch : ob-, over; see ob- + servāre, to keep, watch; see ser-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French observer = Spanish Portuguese observar = Italian osservare, from Latin observare, watch, note, mark, heed, guard, keep, pay attention to, regard, comply with, etc., from ob, before, + servare, keep: see serve, and cf. conserve, preserve, reserve.
 

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