Neglect

Neglect is the disregarding or paying of little attention to something, particularly when this involved the failure to care for or attend to something due to oversight or carelessness.

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• A wise and salutary neglect.
  • Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America (1775), Volume II, p. 117.

• Give me a look, give me a face,
  That makes simplicity a grace:
  Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
  Such sweet neglect more taketh me
  Than all the adulteries of art;
  They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
  • Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman (1609), Act I, scene 1.

• His noble negligences teach
  What others' toils despair to reach.
  • Matthew Prior, Alma (1718), Canto II, line 7.