Word of the Day:
vigilance
What It Means
Close and continuous attention.
A guard; a person set to watch.
Vigilance in Context
“[…] similarly, the empiriocritics' opposition to religion was a fraud intended to lull the vigilance of the proletariat and lead it by different paths in the same direction as religious mythology.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia.
Source and license
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