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Irrespective   /ɪrəspˈɛktɪv/   Listen
adjective
Irrespective  adj.  
1.
Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. "According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God."
2.
Disrespectful. (Obs.)
Irrespective of, regardless of; without regard to; as, irrespective of differences.





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"Irrespective" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sunday as we passed! I had absolutely to forbid their carpentering. Those men would have put in a full day, quite irrespective of the damage done to one hundred and four little moral natures. As it is, they have just stood and looked at those shacks and handled their hammers, and thought about where they would drive the first nail tomorrow morning. The more I study men, the more I realize ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster
... task, and proceed to say something of the many striking excellences which distinguish Cooper's writings, and have given him such wide popularity. Popularity is but one test of merit, and not the highest,—gauging popularity by the number of readers, at any one time, irrespective of their taste and judgment. In this sense, "The Scottish Chiefs" and "Thaddeus of Warsaw" were once as popular as any of the Waverley Novels. But Cooper's novels have enduring merit, and will surely keep their place in the literature of the language. The manners, habits, and costumes of England ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... suffices that a man can say that he has given his life's blood to his work; that he expects neither immediate justice nor serious attention; that he works without hope of any kind, and simply because the love of work beats beneath his skin like his heart, irrespective of any will of his own. If he can do all this, he may die in the effort with the consoling illusion that he will be appreciated one day or other. Ah! if the others only knew how jauntily I bear the weight ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... table given by the "Commercial Advertiser," we learn that the available steam marine of the lakes is 60 steamers, and a tonnage of 30,000 tons. This is irrespective of 20 propellers." ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... South went cheerfully into the ranks, as the post of honor; and the new regiments endeavored to be perfectly impartial in selecting the best men for their officers, irrespective of any other claim. That they failed signally in their object was the fault, not of their intention, but of human nature in many ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon


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