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Unattentiveness, n. [17th c. Eng. unattentiveness (1682); Attentive adj.] Lack of attention, inattentiveness. — a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 44.
By the ambition and unattentiveness of his friends, his worth was made the scaffold of his ruine

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