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Definition of Onlooking
1. a. Looking on or forward.
Definition of Onlooking
1. Adjective. observing ¹
2. Adjective. looking forward or on ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Onlooking
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onlooking
Literary usage of Onlooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by John Dewey, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, Horace Meyer Kallen, Addison Webster Moore (1917)
"An onlooking nervous system has no advantage over ... onlooking " mind. onlooking,
beholding may indeed ..."
2. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"Moralists love to see the original fount of all goodness in the voice of the
reflective, onlooking self, ie the conscience, and to make public opinion the ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1888)
"... the onlooking of God is the plague of our life. Work in us so mightily by thy
Holy Spirit that we shall be thy children, sons and daughters of the Lord ..."
4. Ampharita: An American Idyll by Brazzà, Countess di Brazzà (1897)
"He stooped and kissed the girl on either dusky cheek, and in the eyes of the
Indian father and those of the whole onlooking village this was a sign of ..."
5. The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Ñāṇamoli (1992)
"With the fading as well of happiness, I abode in onlooking equanimity, mindful
and fully aware; still feeling pleasure with the body, I entered upon and ..."
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