Definition of "onlook" [onlook]

• The act of looking on (something); a thing or situation looked at. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Either it seems to be a due reward for past action — that 'invita religio' which wells up in the blackest heart, or the sufferer gains a kind of onlook into sweet plains beyond, into which the troubled passage is taking him, and which can only thus be reached ...."
• "Either it seems to be a due reward for past action ” that 'invita religio' which wells up in the blackest heart, or the sufferer gains a kind of onlook into sweet plains beyond, into which the troubled passage is taking him, and which can only thus be reached ...."
• "Also, by that time the crowd around them had grown to several dozen or more onlook - ers, all hill dwarves."