Definition of neglect

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Neglect (v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.

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Truantship :: Truantship (n.) The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.
Neglecting :: Neglecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neglec.
Go-by :: Go-by (n.) A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by..
Slight :: Slight (n.) The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity..
Neglectful :: Neglectful (a.) Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.
Prayerless :: Prayerless (a.) Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer.
Praecipe :: Praecipe (n.) A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Inoperative :: Inoperative (a.) Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes..
Practice :: Practice (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music..
Unservice :: Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.
Reckless :: Reckless (a.) Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.
Scamp :: Scamp (a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially..
Omission :: Omission (n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
Default :: Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass..
Nonexecution :: Nonexecution (n.) Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.
Maverick :: Maverick (n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle..
Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..
Overslip :: Overslip (v. t.) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity..
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