Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AT-TEN'TION, n.

1. The act of attending or heeding; the due application of the ear to sounds, or of the mind to objects presented to its contemplation. [Literally, a stretching toward.] They say the tongues of dying men, / Enforce attention like deep harmony. – Shak.
2. Act of civility, or courtesy; as, attention to a stranger.