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Definitions: Neglect |
NeglectNoun1. Lack of attention and due care. 2. The state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect". 3. Lack of care and attention. 4. The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern. 5. Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. Verb1. Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten". 2. Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account". 3. Fail to attend to; "he neglects his children". 4. Give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neglect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support, a report to the observer/spotter to indicate that the last round(s) was fired with incorrect data and that the round(s) will be fired again using correct data. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Negligence, Neglect. Negligence is the habit, neglect the act, of leaving things undone. The adjectives negligent and neglectful should, in like manner, be discriminated. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: NeglectSynonyms: carelessness (n), disregard (n), disuse (n), neglectfulness (n), negligence (n), nonperformance (n), drop (v), fail (v), ignore (v), leave out (v), miss (v), omit (v), overleap (v), overlook (v), pretermit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: attend to (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dereliction of Duty | Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail. |
Noun: dereliction of duty; fault; (guilt); sin; (vice); non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter. | |
Disrespect | Irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae, superciliousness; (contempt). |
Disuse | Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning. |
Exclusion | Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin). |
Inaction | Noun: inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect. |
Incompleteness | Verb: be incomplete; Adjective: fall short of; lack; (be insufficient); neglect. |
Neglect | Verb: be negligent; Adjective: take no care of; (take care of; ); neglect; let slip,let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of. |
Noncompletion | Verb: not complete; leave unfinished; Adjective:, leave undone, drop, put down; neglect; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget). |
Nonperformance, inexecution; neglect. | |
Nonobservance | Verb: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to. |
Noun: nonobservance; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality. | |
Nonpreparation | Nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded garden; neglect. |
Underestimation | Verb: underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; (detract); not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; (despise); neglect; slur over. |
Untimeliness | Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. |
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Screenplays | You have to neglect illness, and the body, and so forth, to improve man. (Introduction to Scientology; writing credit: James Andrew Hall; H.G. Wells) It just feels like abandonment and neglect. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Kfer) | |
Lyrics | A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect ("Talk To Me"; performing artist: Stevie Nicks) But my friends say neglect is on your mind... ("What Have You Done For Me Lately"; performing artist: Janet Jackson) You can collect all neglect ("She Has Funny Cars"; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921) Neglect Not the Children (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Don't Destroy Parental Powers By Neglect : Gonorrhea The Great Sterilizer.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Benjamin Franklin | A little neglect may breed great mischief. |
C.f. Kettering | If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. |
Dr. Frank Crane | The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. |
Marguerite Duras | It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. |
Ovid | Neglect of appearance becomes men. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
Samuel Johnson | What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. |
Wisdom and The Chinese | Do not consider any vice as trivial; and therefore practice it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant and therefore neglect it. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Such designs as these (says he) when any king harbours in his thoughts and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; so that, according to him, the neglect of the public good is to be taken as an evidence of such design, or at least for a sufficient cause of resistance. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I have been long a sleeper, but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Medical and nursing education neglect urinary incontinence. (references) | |
Determine the characteristics of those who neglect changing skin lesions so educational campaigns may be improved. (references) | ||
Inadequate nursing home staffing prohibits proper treatment and contributes to the neglect of nursing home residents. (references) | ||
Business | Female infanticide, abandonment, or neglect of baby girls may also be a factor in some areas. (references) | |
However, since 1979, the production of solid waste (household, hospital, and industrial waste) has experienced unprecedented increase, neglect and has become a critical issue. (references) | ||
According to Carlos Arrigoni of Ernst & Young, the result of this trend has been a relative neglect and growing informality in the financing of small and midsized firms in the interior. (references) | ||
Children | Paraguay | Abuse and neglect of children is a problem. (references) |
Moldova | Various laws contain provisions against neglect of children. (references) | |
China | Neglect of baby girls is one factor in their lower survival rate. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | The soldiers had alleged medical neglect, substandard treatment, and non-payment of allowances after they returned injured from serving in the Nigerian contingent of ECOMOG forces in Liberia and Sierra Leone. (references) |
Economic History | Tanzania | The road network must recover from 25 years of neglect and decay. (references) |
Nigeria | The legislature and judiciary, having suffered years of neglect, must be rebuilt as institutions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | Years of extensive corruption and governmental neglect have left the judicial system poorly organized and nearly moribund. (references) |
Panama | The authorities frequently do not address cases of abuse and neglect in these provincial jails due to their low profile in the prison system. (references) | |
Mauritius | In all of the other cases of deaths in prison subsequent to February 1999, police conducted investigations, and there were no reports of abuse or neglect. (references) | |
Minorities | Czech Republic | A higher-than-average percentage of the Romani population applies for partial or full disability pensions due to the occurrence of malignant diseases resulting from the neglect of preventive health practices or the lack of available medical care in areas with above-average Romani populations. (references) |
Political Economy | Burma | In 1999 the World Bank drafted a report highly critical of the junta's policies which neglect health and education. (references) |
Nigeria | In theory, an independent federal judiciary exists, but in reality the judicial branch has been greatly weakened by neglect and endemic corruption. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uganda | On May 12, three EC officials were arrested and charged with abuse of office and neglect of duty for printing excess cards for the purpose of allegedly rigging the presidential election; on July 31, the charges were dropped. (references) |
Travel | Georgia | Georgia's once important railroad system has suffered from neglect, and is slow and unreliable. (references) |
Women | Micronesia | In the traditional Micronesian extended family unit, spouses and children were accorded strong protections from violence, abuse, and neglect. (references) |
Worker Rights | Ethiopia | The study concluded that physical and emotional abuse were twice as common among child workers compared with nonworkers, sexual abuse was five times as common, and neglect was eight times as common. (references) |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Some of the States have paid a laudable attention to this object, but every degree of neglect is to be found among others. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Never again should we neglect a growing crisis like the shortage of energy, where further delay will only lead to more harsh and painful solutions. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We have devoted five years trying to narrow a dangerous gap born of illusion and neglect. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I won't neglect my responsibility for sound regulations that serve the public good, but regulatory overkill must be stopped. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | After years and years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen protection on our borders. |
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| "Neglect" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.98% of the time. "Neglect" is used about 1,050 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.98% | 766 | 8,974 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 19.7% | 207 | 21,147 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.33% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,050 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "neglect": benign neglect ♦ child neglect ♦ criminal neglect ♦ culpable neglect ♦ in a state of neglect ♦ in state of neglect ♦ inattention neglect ♦ neglect a distinction: confound ♦ neglect not observe ♦ neglect of ♦ neglect of duties ♦ neglect of duty ♦ neglect of smb.'s duties ♦ neglect of time ♦ neglect one's duties ♦ out of neglect ♦ willful neglect. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "neglect": patient-neglect, self-neglect. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
child neglect | 166 |
child abuse neglect | 92 |
neglect | 67 |
nursing home neglect | 67 |
attorney nursing home neglect | 31 |
elder neglect | 30 |
elderly neglect | 30 |
neglect in nursing home | 26 |
senior neglect | 24 |
neglect salutary | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "neglect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | agterweë laat (fail, leave, leave out, omit, overlook), afstel (fail, omit). (various references) | |
Albanian | nuk i vë re, neglizhent (neglectful, remiss), shpërfill (contemn, disregard, pass by, slight), pakujdesshmëri, mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub), lë pas dore (flaunt), braktisje (abandonment, apostasy, dereliction, desertion, limbo). (various references) | |
Arabic | هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), لا يهتم (fribble, sidestep, tune out), تجاهل (cut, disregard, eliminate, ignore, ignoring, inattention, overlooking, override, passing over, slight, slighting, wink at), ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness), إستخفاف (disregard, underestimation), إستخف (belittle, despise, disesteem, disparage, disregard, pass over, pooh pooh, slight, talk down, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | занемареност (disrepair, negligence), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on), изоставяне (abandonment, arrears, dereliction, desertion, exposure, lag, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), пренебрегване (blinking, oblivion), пропускам (admit, drop, fail, let in, let slip by, lose, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, run, skip, throw away), липса на внимание, изоставеност (dereliction, desertion, desolation, forlornness), забравям (fail, forget, leave behind, omit, put aside, put behind, unlearn), опущение (dereliction, negligence, omission), занемарявам (abandon, evade), занемаряване (abandonment), не обръщам внимание на (disregard, forget, ignore, push aside, put away, shuck), неизпълнение (defection, negligence), небрежност (forgetfulness, laches, negligence, remissness), невнимание (inattention, indiscretion), липса на грижи. (various references) | |
Chinese | 謾 (deceive, disrespect, slight), 疏忽 (negligence), 忽视 (Disregarded, Disregarding), 忽視 (ignore). (various references) | |
Czech | nedostatek péèe, zapomenout (forget, leave, omit), zanedbat (omit), zanedbání (failure, nonfeasance, omission), promeškat (let pass), opominout (pretermit), opomenutí (failure, laches, silence). (various references) | |
Danish | forsømme. (various references) | |
Dutch | veronachtzamen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | neglekto (slighting), neglekti, nefari (fail, omit), ne fari (fail, omit), malprefero (slighting), malatenti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vansketta, misrøkja. (various references) | |
Farsi | فروگذاری (Omission, Silence), فروگذارکردن , مسامحه , غفلت کردن (Passover), غفلت (Default, Forget, Negligence, Omission), اهمال (Dodge, Negligence). (various references) | |
Finnish | lasten heitteillepano (desertion of children). (various references) | |
French | négliger. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferwaarloazje, efterútstelle (subordinate). (various references) | |
German | versäumen (fail, lose, miss, overstay, to overstay), vernachlässigen (be unkind to, ignore), nachlässigkeit (carelessness, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, negligence, perfunctoriness, slackness, sloppiness, thoughtlessness). (various references) | |
Greek | αμέλεια (default, disregard, neglectfulness, negligence, perfunctoriness, remissness), αμελώ (disregard, skimp). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מח"ל (omission, oversight), ל"תעלם (disregard, ignore, overlook, override, pass over, vanish), ל"תרשל (be negligent, muff, slack), ל"ת כר (deny, estrange, ignore, renounce, repudiate), ל"שמיט (drop, leave out, let loose, miss out, omit), ל"שתמט (dodge, escape, eschew, evade, malinger, shirk, swing the lead, temporize), ל"ז יח (abandon, omit), ז יח" (abandonment, desertion, forfeiture, forsaking), "ז ח" (abandonment, dereliction, negligence, omission, rejection), רשול (carelessness, negligence, slovenliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elhanyagolás (dereliction), elhanyagoltság (disrepair), elhagyatottság (desolation, loneliness, self-abandonment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penelantaran (abandonment), menterlantarkan (abandon), memperlalaikan (comfort, delay, postpone something). (various references) | |
Italian | trascurare (disdain, disobey, disregard, ignore, omit, overlook, skip), negligere, negligenza (abandonment, carelessness, laxity, negligence). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 疎 (estrangement, silence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おろそか (carelessness, negligence), ネグレクト , そがい (check, damage by rats or mice, estrangement, hindrance, impediment, inhibition, obstruction, taxation, taxes), なおざり (disregard, make light of, negligence), きゅうたい (globe, laziness, old state of affairs, orb, sphere), そえ" (estrangement, silence), ほうち (constitutional government, daimiate, fief, information, intelligence, leave alone, leave as is, leave to chance, news), けいし (brother and sister, capital, despise, execution, heir, heiress, ignore, metropolis, metropolitan police, old Kyoto, police superintendent, ruledpaper, slight, stepchild, successor), とうか" (bitter cold, disregard, frost, mailing, make light of, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping). (various references) | |
Korean | 태만 (inadvertency, Negligence). (various references) | |
Malay | melalaikan. (various references) | |
Manx | shleh (omission), neuyeadys (negligence), neuyeadid (negligence), neurioose (inadvertence), meerioose (carelessness, inattention, negligence, omission, thoughtlessness), meehastey (inattention), meechurrym (negligence), lhiggey shaghey (condone, defer, indolence, omit, postpone), cur shleh er (omit). (various references) | |
Papiamen | abandoná (abandon, desert, forsake, leave, quit, slighting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eglectnay.(various references) | |
Polish | lekceważyć. (various references) | |
Portuguese | negligenciar (default, disregard, forget, omit, overlooker, put by), negligência (barratry, default, disregard, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incurious, lapse, misfeasance, negligence, omissions excepted), descuidar (overlook). (various references) | |
Romanian | nu de îngriji de, nu da atenţie, nu avea grijã de, nu acorda atenţie, nu îndeplini, nu ţine socotealã de, nu ţine cont de (discount, override), neglijare (dereliction, lapse, slighting), neglija (omit, pass by, pass over, slight), neîndeplinire (non-fulfilment), trece cu vederea (paper over, pardon), omite (balk, baulk, forget, jump, leave, omit, overlook, pretermit, retrench), lãsa în paraginã, desconsiderare (defiance, disdain, opprobrium), desconsidera (despise, disobey, disregard, slight). (various references) | |
Russian | нерадивость (laches, negligence), небрежность (inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity, malpractice, negligence, nonchalance), не обращать внимания (pass over, shrug off), запущенность (manginess), пренебрегать (contemn, disdain, disregard, flout, set aside, slighted, slighting, slights), пренебрежение (depreciation, disdain, disparagement, disregard, flout, scorn). (various references) | |
Scottish | dearmad (forgetfulness, omission). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapustiti, zapuštanje, zapostaviti (overslaugh), zanemariti (disregard, ignore), zabataliti. (various references) | |
Spanish | descuidar (abandon, disregard, omit), desatender (disdain, disobey, disregard, ignore). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanvårda, vansköta (mismanage), uraktlåta (fail, omit), underlåta (omit), försumma (be careless of, Miss, omit). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่สนใจ (fob off, foist off on), การละเลย (omission). (various references) | |
Turkish | unutmak (be oblivious of, be unmindful of, forget, leave, leave behind, leave out, loose sight of, omit, pass the sponge over, unlearn), ilgisizlik (apathy, backwater, coolness, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, listlessness, phlegm, unconcern, unconcernedness), ihmal etmek (be careless, be disregardful of, default on, disregard, fail, forget, leave out, let things slide, omit, slight), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, delinquency, disregard, failure, forgetfulness, inattention, negligence, omission, remissness, shortcoming), boşlamak (ignore, let go, slacken), boşlama (cavitation), bakımsızlık (squalidity, squalidness, squalor), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag), aldırmamak (be unmindful of, close one's eyes to, disregard, ignore, not to mind, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, shelve). (various references) | |
Turkmen | harlamak (disdain), дsgermezlik (disdain), дsgermezзilik (disdain). (various references) | |
Ukranian | не звертати уваги (brush aside, let things slide, overlook), забуття (condonation, effacement, forgetfulness, limbo, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, silence), занедбання, занедбаність (abandonment, desertion), занедбувати обов'язки, занехаяність, зневажання (abasement, forgetfulness, trample, violation), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate), зневага (contempt, disdain, disparagement, indignity, raspberry, spurn), забувати (efface, forget, leave, leave behind), не помічати (overlook), ігнорувати (balk, brush aside, defy, disregard, dissemble, eliminate, ignore, overjump, overleap, overlook), не виконувати, не турбуватися, недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, negligence, nonchalance, offhandedness, oscitancy, oscitation, preterition, pretermission, slapdash), недбайливість (negligence), недогляд (default, dereliction, erratum, inadvertence, inadvertency, negligence, omission, overlook, oversight), нехтування (slight), нехтувати (disdain, omit, override, slight), неувага (disregard, inattention), халатність, не дбати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sao lãng (neglectfulness), sự không chú ý sự bỏ bê, sự hờ hững (apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, unconcern), sự cẩu thả (carelessness, casualness, neglectfulness, oscitation, remissiness), sự bỏ mặc sự thời ơ. (various references) | |
Welsh | pallu (cease, fail, refuse), esgeuluso. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | taka. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bacchides, darium, deerat, deerit, deerunt, deesset, deest, defuerit, defuerunt, defuit, dens, dente, dentem, dentes, dentibus, dentium, des, desis, desit, desunt, ignoro, incultus, incuria, incuriosus, neglegentia, neglegentiam, neglegentias, postponere, praetereat, praetereunte, praetereuntem, praetereuntes, praetereuntibus, praeteribant, praeteribis, praeteribit, praeteribo, praeteriens, praeterient, praeterierint, praeterieris, praeterierit, praeterieritis, praeterierunt, praeteriet, praeterii, praeteriit, praeterire, praeteriret, praeterissent, praeterisset, praeterit, praeterita, praeteriti, praeteritis, praeterito, praeteritum, praeterivi, praeterivit, praetermissio, praetermissio, pretermissio, situm, situs. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean de parakoush autwn eipe th ekklhsia ean de kai thV ekklhsiaV parakoush estw soi wsper o eqnikoV kai o telwnhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quod si non audierit eos dic ecclesiae si autem et ecclesiam non audierit sit tibi sicut ethnicus et publicanus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Gyf he þanne þe ne gehyrð. segge hitge-fer-redene. Gyf he hine ne ge-hyrð syohe þe swa swa hæðene & mannful. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And if he herith not hem, seie thou to the chirche. But if he herith not the chirche, be he as an hethen and a pupplican to thee. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | If he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not ye congregacion take him as an hethen man and as a publican. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he shall neglect to hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 17 |
| Bulgarian | И ако не послуша тях, кажи това на църквата; че ако не послуша и църквата, нека ти бъде като езичник и бирник. |
| Cebuano | Kon magadumili man gayud siya sa pagpaminaw kanila, isumbong siya sa iglesia; ug kon dili gihapon siya maminaw bisan pa sa iglesia, nan, isipa siya nga usa ka Gentil ug maniningil sa buhis. |
| Chinese | 若 是 不 聽 他 們 、 就 告 訴 教 會 ． 若 是 不 聽 教 會 、 就 看 他 像 外 邦 人 ' 稅 吏 一 樣 。 |
| Croatian | Ako ni njih ne posluša, reci Crkvi. Ako pak ni Crkve ne posluša, neka ti bude kao poganin i carinik." |
| Danish | Men er han dem overhørig, da sig det til Menigheden; men er han også Menigheden overhørig, da skal han være for dig ligesom en Hedning og en Tolder. |
| Dutch | En indien hij denzelven geen gehoor geeft; zo zeg het der gemeente; en indien hij ook der gemeente geen gehoor geeft, zo zij hij u als de heiden en de tollenaar. |
| Finnish | Totisesti minä sanon teille: kaikki, minkä te sidotte maan päällä, on oleva sidottu taivaassa, ja kaikki, minkä te päästätte maan päällä, on oleva päästetty taivaassa. |
| French | S`il refuse de les écouter, dis-le l`Église; et s`il refuse aussi d`écouter l`Église, qu`il soit pour toi comme un païen et un publicain. |
| German | Hört er die nicht, so sage es der Gemeinde. Hört er die Gemeinde nicht, so halt ihn als einen Zöllner oder Heiden. |
| Haitian Creole | Si l' refize koute yo tou, lè sa a wa di legliz la sa. Si l' refize koute legliz la, ou mèt gade l' tankou yon etranje pou ou, tankou yon pèseptè kontribisyon. |
| Hungarian | Ha azokra nem hallgat, mondd meg a gyülekezetnek; ha a gyülekezetre sem hallgat, legyen elõtted olyan, mint a pogány és a vámszedõ. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau ia tidak menerima nasihat orang-orang itu, beritahukanlah hal itu kepada jemaat. Dan akhirnya, kalau ia tidak mau menerima nasihat jemaat, anggaplah ia sebagai penagih pajak dan seorang yang tidak mengenal Allah." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan jikalau ia menolak perkataan mereka itu, katakanlah hal itu kepada sidang; tetapi jikalau tiada juga ia mendengar sidang itu pun, biarlah ia menjadi padamu seperti orang kafir dan seperti orang pemungut cukai. |
| Italian | Se poi non ascolter neppure costoro, dillo all'assemblea; e se non ascolter neanche l'assemblea, sia per te come un pagano e un pubblicano. |
| Korean | 만 일 그 " 의 말 도 " 지 않 거 " 교 회 에 말 하 교 회 의 말 도 " 지 않 거 " 이 방 인 과 세 리 와 같 이 여 기 라 |
| Latvian | Bet ja viòð tiem neklausîs, saki Baznîcai! Bet ja viòð Baznîcai neklausîs, tad lai viòð tev bûtu kâ pagâns un muitnieks! |
| Manx Gaelic | As mannagh der eh geill dauesyn, insh eh da'n agglish: agh mannagh der eh geill da'n agglish, jeeagh er myr an-chreestee as myr publican. |
| Maori | A, kite pake ia ki a raua, korerotia ki te hahi: a ki te pake ano ia ki te hahi, me waiho e koe hei tautangata, hei pupirikana. |
| Modern Greek | Και εαν παρακουση αυτων, ειπε τουτο προς την εκκλησιαν· αλλ' εαν και της εκκλησιας παρακουση, ας ειναι εις σε ως ο εθνικος και ο τελωνης. |
| Norwegian | Men hører han ikke på dem, da si det til menigheten! men hører han heller ikke på menigheten, da skal han være for dig som en hedning og en tolder. |
| Portuguese | Se recusar ouvi-los, dize-o igreja; e, se também recusar ouvir a igreja, considera-o como gentio e publicano. |
| Rumanian | Dacq nu vrea sq asculte de ei, spune -l Bisericii; wi, dacq nu vrea sq asculte nici de Bisericq, sq fie pentru tine ca un pqgkn wi ca un vamew. |
| Russian | ЕУМЙ ЦЕ ОЕ ПУМХЫБЕФ ЙИ, УЛБЦЙ "ЕТЛЧЙ; Б ЕУМЙ Й "ЕТЛЧЙ ОЕ ПУМХЫБЕФ, ФП "Б 'Х"ЕФ ПО ФЕ'Е, ЛБЛ СЪЩЮОЙЛ Й НЩФБТШ. |
| Shuar | Túrasha yatsum tuke ántachkuinkia Yus-shuar iruntainiam iwiainiakta. Túrasha yatsum tuke ántachkuinkia Yus-shuarcha Núnisan Enentáimtusta nu shuar.' |
| Spanish | Y si él no les hace caso a ellos, dilo a la iglesia; y si no hace caso a la iglesia, tenlo por gentil y publicano. |
| Swahili | Asipowasikia hao, liambie kanisa. Na kama hatalisikia kanisa, na awe kwako kama watu wasiomjua Mungu na watoza ushuru. |
| Swedish | Lyssnar han icke till dem, så säg det till församlingen. Lyssnar han ej heller till församlingen, så vare han för dig såsom en hedning och en publikan. |
| Thai | ถ้าเขาไม่ฟังคนเหล่านั้น จงไปแจ้งความต่อคริสตจักร ถ้าเขายังไม่ฟังคริสตจักรอีกก็ให้ถือเสียว่า เขาเป็นเหมือนคนต่างชาติและคนเก็บ าษี |
| Ukrainian | А коли не послуха" їх, скажи Церкві; коли ж не послуха" й Церкви, хай буде тобі, як поганин і митник! |
| Uma | Ane uma-i dota mpangala' lolita sabi' toera, bua' -imi hi hawe'ea ompi' hampepangalaa'. Ane uma oa' napangalai' nau' hawe'ea ompi' hampepangalaa' mpoparesai' -i, pelele' lau-imi-hana, taponcawa hewa tauna to uma mpo'incai Alata'ala lau-imi, pai' hewa tauna to dada'a kehi-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neglect": neglected, neglecter, neglecters, neglectful, neglectfully, neglectfulness, neglectfulnesses, neglecting, neglects. (additional references) | |
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"Neglect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: englert, naglect, Neblett, neglet, negli, neglict, Negresco, Ngele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "neglect" (pronounced nugle"kt) |
| 4 | -l e" k t | collect, deflect, elect, inflect, recollect, reelect, reflect, select. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, confect, connect, correct, decked, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, reconnect, redirect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: gentle. | |
-2 letters: elect, genet, gleet, tenge. | |
-3 letters: celt, cent, cete, gelt, gene, gent, glee, glen, leet, lent, teel, teen, tele. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, eng, gee, gel, gen, get, lee, leg, let, nee, net, tee, teg, tel, ten. | |
-5 letters: el, en, et, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: electing, neglects. | |
+2 letters: clientage, genetical, genuflect, neglected, neglecter, rectangle, selecting, telegenic. | |
+3 letters: clientages, deflecting, electroing, geniculate, genuflects, neglecters, neglectful, neglecting, prelecting, rectangles, reelecting, reflecting. | |
+4 letters: celebrating, congealment, deselecting, enucleating, geanticline, genetically, geniculated, genuflected, glabrescent, glycerinate, polygenetic, praelecting, preelecting, rejectingly, telecasting, telescoping. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, cartwheeling, cladogenetic, congealments, conglomerate, decelerating, deescalating, electrifying, electrogenic, evangelistic, geanticlines, genuflecting, genuflection, geotechnical, glycerinated, glycerinates, intelligence, neglectfully, palingenetic, phylogenetic, preselecting, recollecting, reescalating, technologies, technologize. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 67 6C 65 63 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . --. .-.. . -.-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100111 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e g l e c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0067 006C 0065 0063 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48717378716986 |
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