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/rɪspˈɛktɪd/ /rispˈɛktəd/ /rispˈɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Respect v. t. (past & past part. respected; pres. part. respecting)

To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed. "Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood." "In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs."

To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor. "I do respect thee as my soul."

To look toward; to front upon or toward. (Obs.)

To regard; to consider; to deem. (Obs.) "To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar, And as his own respected him to death."

To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.

As respects, as regards; with regard to; as to.

To respect the person or To respect the persons, to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment."

Synonyms: To regard; esteem; honor; revere; venerate.

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"Respected" Quotes from Famous Books

... but he plainly showed that he regarded morality in a man to be as thoroughly the peculiar attribute of a clergyman as a black coat; and that there could be no reason for other men even to pretend to it when there were no women by to be respected and deceived. ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... for boys, in most hands, are not too easily managed, but in hers they were as obedient as a company of soldiers.... These boys will speedily be placed in positions, where they will grow up respectable and respected members of society, with access to the highest positions in the country freely open to them.... We hope that Miss Macpherson will place all her boys advantageously, and will bring us many more. She is a benefactor to the Empire ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... respected by the secular press as it never has been before, and compelled an honorable recognition.—Hudson Tuttle, Author ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various

... Nihilist's bullet by the brave action of one of the serfs who had recently been emancipated by royal decree. Czar Alexander II was well liked by his own people and was regarded as an enlightened ruler by the other nations of the West. He was especially respected in the United States because of the open support he gave to the Union side during the Civil War. His escape from death was a cause for official rejoicing in this country, and the Congress of the United States passed a resolution of congratulations on the deliverance of the ...

— Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology • Margaret Brown Klapthor

... direct the verdict. In the City, old Hasluck had a bad reputation and deserved it; in Stoke-Newington—then a green suburb, containing many fine old houses, standing in great wooded gardens—he was loved and respected. In his business, he was a man void of all moral sense, without bowels of compassion for any living thing; in retirement, a man with a strong sense of duty and a fine regard for the rights and feelings ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

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