Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not attending or listening; not attentive.

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Examples

  • She was entirely intent on this minute and rather pathetic task, quite unattending the greatness of the ship, or the many people the great hulk swallowed or spat forth.

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

  • I sang not as loving my own voice, and praise is lost that falls on unattending ears.

    Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades Florence Holbrook 1896

  • "If there are, you will not wish to stay, I know, when you consider how near my marriage day is, and how undisturbed my mind should be by any cares unattending my wedding."

    That Affair Next Door Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • Specifically, our badge on each company home page said that the unattending company "has not yet committed to open conversation about its products and services."

    Demand Satisfaction! 2009

  • Indeed, you would forget the road and eat the dinner unattending; for all that's made would be a green thought in a green shade for you by the end of the day, and as you shut your eyes at night you would see forest, forest with the sunlight on the young tips of the pines, forest unfolding itself from earth to sky as you climbed hour after hour close to the ferns and boulders of the foaming mountain stream your pathway followed, forest too on the opposite side of the valley, with wastes of golden broom here and there, and fields of rye and barley swept gently by the breeze.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

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