Word Meanings - NEGLECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.

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• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTIVE
  Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.