Definition of "onlook"

onlook¹

noun
plural onlooks
1. The act of looking on (something); observation.
  Quotations
  The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical.
  1966, Baptist Historical Society, The Baptist quarterly, volume 21, page 103
2. That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
3. (rare) One's perspective or outlook.
  Quotations
  This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook.
  2004, Richard Briggs, Words in Action

onlook²

verb
third-person singular simple present onlooks, present participle onlooking, simple past and past participle onlooked
1. (intransitive) To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.
  Quotations
  So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […]
  2008, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions