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Answer for the clue "Taking seriously ", 7 letters:
heeding

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vb. (present participle of heed English)

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Heed \Heed\ (h[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heeded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Heeding .] [OE. heden, AS. h[=e]dan; akin to OS. h[=o]dian, D. hoeden, Fries. hoda, OHG. huoten, G. h["u]ten, Dan. hytte. [root]13. Cf. Hood .] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice ...

Usage examples of heeding.

And lest anyone should suppose that my time was taken with nothing more taxing than watching and heeding my surroundings, I may assure you, this was the least of it, if not the least important.

I watched Delaunay give his testimony, saying how Gaspar had known naught of the plot and brought word straight to him, heeding his advice to make a clean breast of it to the King, and I was proud to be a member of his household.

Joscelin, heeding them, made a reconnaissance on foot and returned grim-faced, leading me to a secure vantage point.

I watched Delaunay give his testimony, saying how Caspar had known naught of the plot and brought word straight to him, heeding his advice to make a clean breast of it to the King, and I was proud to be a member of his household.

Joscelin, heeding them, made a reconaissance on foot and returned grim-faced, leading me to a secure vantage point.

Her voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart was broken From which it came, and I departed Heeding not the words then spoken.

How long had they been captives, heeding the call of the whip, the binding of shackles?

The elder of the two, meanwhile--one of whose habits of mind was always to give instantaneous utterance to the feeling which was upper-most--dilated, without heeding the sneers of his nephew, upon the apparent happiness which they witnessed.

Of her he thinks in his chamber--his quiet, snug, little chamber--a mere closet, looking out upon a long garden-slip, in which he sees, without much heeding them, long lanes of culinary cabbage, and tracts of other growing and decaying vegetation, in which his interest is quite too small to make it needful that he should even ask its separate names.

Brother Cross, and to exchange the sweetest speeches with the widow Thackeray and others, she went on alone--seeing none, heeding none--dreading to meet any face lest it should wear a smile and look the language in which the demon at her side still dealt.

He got the idea, from this, that they were used to listening with care, and heeding instructions.

Across the way, crawling along the barely visible wall of a shop front, hunching itself across the stone blocks as if mired in quicksand, was the guilt he felt at heeding no one but himself as he sought to vindicate both promise and belief a guilt that threatened to rise up and choke him.