a. [UN-1 7.] Heedless.
1570. Levins, Manip., 186. Vnheedful, incautus.
1591. Shaks., Two Gentl., II. vi. 11. Vn-heedfull vowes may heedfully be broken.
1631. Heylin, St. George, 28. Some secret venome, which the unheedfull Reader may swallow unawares.
1740. Cibber, Apol. (1756), I. 175. He so often lost the value of them by an unheedful confidence.
1782. Eliz. Blower, Geo. Bateman, II. 171. The glassman, unheedlul of his threats, picked up the half-crown.
1804. J. Grahame, Sabbath, 25. The toil-worn horse,… Unheedful of the pasture.
1842. Tennyson, Gardener’s Dau., 261. As once we met Unheedful, tho’ beneath a whispering rain [etc.].
So Unheedfully adv.; Unheedfulness.
1591. Shaks., Two Gentl., I. ii. 3. Would’st thou then counsaile me to fall in loue? Luc. I Madam, so you stumble not *vnheedfully.
1586. W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 91. Such errours doo happen … by *vnheedefulnes, when one escapeth them by negligence.
1603. Breton, Packet Mad Lett., II. lxxxv. I know you therefore doe thus kindly touch the hurt of vnheedfulnesse.
