onlook
verb
- Observe with attention
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).
- The act of looking on (something); observation.
“The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.”
- That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
- One's perspective or outlook.
“This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.”
verb
Etymology: From on- + look. Compare Old English onlōcian.
- To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.
“So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]”