Neglect vs Forslow - What's the difference?
neglect | forslow |
(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(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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, title= The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
Habitual lack of care.
(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.
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)- I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
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