NEGLIGENT, a.
1. Careless heedless apt or accustomed to omit what ought to be done inattentive to business or necessary concerns. It is applied to a particular instance of neglect, or it denotes habitually careless or inattentive. 2 Chronicles 29 . 2 Peter 1 .
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent, is not far from being poor.
2. Regardless.
Be thou negligent of fame.
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