Obs. [UN-1 12.] Unheedfulness, heedlessness.
1486. Lichfield Gild Ord. (1920), 21. That the seid summe … by vnhedynes, blame, and neglygens of kepers … ys now diminysshed.
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., 23 b. Them yt be phlegmatick, they helpe forward, to slouth,… sleapines, rechlesse vnheedynes.
1607. R. Wilkinson, Serm. at Whitehall, 9. She sailes not, but by sounding, lest by her vnheedines she runne her selfe aground.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 276. The wicked practices … whereto, through unheedinesse the two young men had given great fomentation.
