Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of looking on (something); a thing or situation looked at.
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Examples
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Either it seems to be a due reward for past action — that 'invita religio' which wells up in the blackest heart, or the sufferer gains a kind of onlook into sweet plains beyond, into which the troubled passage is taking him, and which can only thus be reached ....
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Either it seems to be a due reward for past action ” that 'invita religio' which wells up in the blackest heart, or the sufferer gains a kind of onlook into sweet plains beyond, into which the troubled passage is taking him, and which can only thus be reached ....
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge Benson, Arthur C. 1886
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Also, by that time the crowd around them had grown to several dozen or more onlook - ers, all hill dwarves.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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Also, by that time the crowd around them had grown to several dozen or more onlook - ers, all hill dwarves.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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Introspection, and retrospection were good for the cloister; but the uplook, the outlook and the onlook are alone worthy the modern Christian.
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Panasonic VT20 3D TVs to get a hands onlook at the new TV and see it in action.
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Panasonic VT20 3D TV UK launch - Which? first look www. which.co.uk We went along to the UK launch of the Panasonic VT20 3D TVs to get a hands onlook at the new TV and see it in action.
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