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onlook

verb

  1. Observe with attention
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).

  1. 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.

  2. That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
  3. 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.

  1. 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, […]