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Neglect vs Forslow - What's the difference?

neglect | forslow |

As verbs the difference between neglect and forslow

is that neglect is (label) to fail to care for or attend to something while forslow is (obsolete) to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

As a noun neglect

is the act of neglecting.

neglect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
  • (label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
  • (label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
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    Derived terms

    * benign neglect * neglectful * neglectfully * neglectfulness

    Noun

  • The act of neglecting.
  • The state of being neglected.
  • Habitual lack of care.
  • Synonyms

    * carelessness * negligence

    forslow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
  • *1599 , (Ben Jonson), Every Man out of His Humour , V.8:
  • *:If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
  • (obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
  • *:But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […].
  • *1682 , (John Dryden), Epistles , XIII:
  • *:The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
  • (obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
  • *c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
  • *:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
  • Derived terms

    * (l)