Definition of "vigilancy" []

• Vigilance. (noun)

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• "We can keep our professed enemies from our cities, by gates, walls and towers, defend ourselves from thieves and robbers by watchfulness and weapons; but this malice of men, and their pernicious endeavours, no caution can divert, no vigilancy foresee, we have so many secret plots and devices to mischief one another."
• "Kept he was by sixteen soldiers, doubtless men of blood and vigilancy, having this to keep them waking, that if"
• "There lies my foible, I confess; no fortifications, no courage, conduct, nor vigilancy, can pretend to defend a place where the cruelty of the governor forces the garrison to mutiny."