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Watching vs Spectation - What's the difference?

watching | spectation |

As nouns the difference between watching and spectation

is that watching is the act of one who watches while spectation is (archaic|rare) regard; aspect; appearance.

As a verb watching

is .

watching

English

Verb

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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching

    spectation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic, rare) Regard; aspect; appearance.
    • This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy. — Harvey.
  • (rare) The act of watching something; observation.
  • *1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 34:
  • *:the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner [...].

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