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Etymology 1
From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).
Noun
onlook (plural onlooks)
- The act of looking on (something); observation.
1966, Baptist Historical Society, The Baptist quarterly, volume 21, page 103:The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.
- That which is looked at, regarded, or considered. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (rare) One's perspective or outlook.
2004, Richard Briggs, Words in Action:This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.
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Etymology 2
From on- + look. Compare Old English onlōcian.
Verb
onlook (third-person singular simple present onlooks, present participle onlooking, simple past and past participle onlooked)
- (intransitive) To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.
2008, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions:So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]
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