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Respectfulness

noun

Courteous regard for people's feelings. Synonyms: deference, respect. "Out of respect for his privacy"

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"Respectfulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the place was too "lonely" for them and incontinently depart, that she realized how hard was the problem of "help" in such a place. It was her first trial at independent housekeeping, and with her English ideas she had counted on neatness, respectfulness of manner, and a certain amount of training as a matter of course in a servant. One has to learn one's way in a new country by the hardest, and perhaps, the least hard part of Imogen's lesson were the intervals ...

— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

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... the Bench for whom John Clerk retained a respectfulness not generally exhibited to others in that position was Lord President Blair. After hearing the President overturn without any effort an argument he had laboriously built up, and which appeared to be regarded as unsurmountable by ...

— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton

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... it better to announce at once," he said, with the same stiff respectfulness as of an old family lawyer, "a boat rowed by six men has come to the landing-stage, and there's a gentleman ...

— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

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Words linked to "Respectfulness" : respect, deference, respectful, courtesy, good manners