Word Finder - respected

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To have respect for.

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She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

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To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

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I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

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To abide by an agreement.

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They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

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To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.

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(dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.

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To regard; to consider; to deem.

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To look toward; to face.

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Deserving of respect; due special honor or appreciation.

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He was a respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.

I've always respected you.

Other than occasional attempts to draw him out, she respected his privacy.

He respected the man who raised me, even when I rejected my natural father.

I've respected your privacy; saw it as a good thing, but the situation is changing.

I respected that, Darkyn replied.

Alex would never cheat - not on someone he respected and admired more than anyone he knew.

But the empire was, especially in the earlier part of his reign, in a very prosperous state, and was respected widely by foreign powers.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

His heavy words broke her heart, but she respected his request and returned to Damian's side.

The armies of Charlemagne contained warriors from all parts of Germany; and although tribal law was respected and codified, legislation common to the whole empire was also introduced.

You're a respected HIV physician and researcher but becoming co-chair of the World Aids Conference must be a new challenge?

When the Princess was introduced to the respected columnist Ann Landers, Margaret looked at her closely.

It is a respected commentator on the development and enforcement of environmental legislation acrosss the board.

He continues to study with Vesna as well as with Igor Gruppman, one of the world's most respected concertmasters.

Andrew Colman rejected the criticism of our supposed lack of balance whilst assuring the Orange leaders that he respected their right to their views.

Respected Jury and dearly beloved Ozma, I pray you not to judge this feline prisoner unfeelingly.

The individual's modesty is respected at all times.

Navigaiion.The seamen of Frisia are among the best in the world, and the shipping of Bremen and Hamburg had won a respected name tong before a German mercantile marine, properly co called, was heard of.

If the states have been loyal to the empire, the imperial government has also respected the constitutional privileges of the states.

I have respected posterity; and should there be a posterity which cares for letters, I dare to hope that it will respect me."

The American Anti-Slavery Society, of which Garrison was the president from 1843 to the day of emancipation, was during all this period the nucleus of an intense and powerful moral agitation, which was greatly valued by many of the most faithful workers in the field of politics, who respected Garrison for his fidelity to his convictions.

Even now the old forms were long religiously respected.

The Mosaic Law was respected, but Hellenism still found an entrance in various forms. The first Hasmonaean " king," Aristobulus I.

Nevertheless he is selfreliant, much respected by his men, and can be trusted in.

It used to be that the medicine man was the most respected individual in the village.

He was respected for his integrity and independence, and a stern outside covered warm affections.

His grandfather was a respected tradesman in Worcester, and his father, who was born in that town in 1797, came up to London in 1820, and entered the office of a firm of discount brokers, in which he afterwards assumed a partnership. As a child the poet was delicate but studious.

There is every evidence that the vikings were not a mere lawless folk - that is, in their internal relations - but that a system of laws existed among them which was generally respected.

It is important, however, to remember that Reimarus attacked atheism with equal effect and sincerity, and that he was a man of high moral character, respected and esteemed by his contemporaries.

Ruffo indignantly declared that once the treaty was signed, not only by himself but by the Russian and Turkish commandants and by the British captain Foote, it must be respected, and on Nelson's refusal he said that he would not help him to capture the castles.

And if there is either an express or a well-understood bargain between the ceding potentate and the government to which the cession is made that private property shall be respected, that is only a bargain which can be enforced by sovereign against sovereign in the ordinary course of diplomatic pressure."

This prince was wandering in the deserts of Africa, pursued by his implacable enemies, but everywhere protected and concealed by the desert tribes, who pitied his misfortunes and respected his illustrious origin.

As a class foreigners were respected, and they were influential beyond proportion to their numbers.

From 1669 until his death he lived in London, much respected for his honesty, loyalty and learning.

Hence the clergy were left to do as they pleased, so long as they respected the law of the land; and most of the modern collisions between Church and State have occurred on the debateable ground where their respective spheres overlap, over questions concerning education or the marriage-laws.

It would be a great mistake to suppose, however, that the influence of the president was fairly appreciated during his term of office, or that he himself was uniformly respected.

These " tulchan " 1 bishops did not make the episcopal office respected in the country; but their appointment was not opposed by the church leaders.

At the same time all ancient Welsh laws and customs, which were at variance with the recognized law of England, were now declared illegal, and Cymric land tenure by gavelkind, which had been respected by Edward I., was expressly abolished and its place taken by the ordinary practice of primogeniture.

His ruthlessness in this case, dangerous precedent as it was, was perhaps necessary; individual interests could not be respected.

Ex-President Pinto died three years later in Valparaiso, leaving a memory respected and admired by all political parties in his country.

Black slaves and men-nurses or lallahs are much respected; the dayah or wet nurse is looked on as a second mother and usually provided for for life.

The Boers respected neither the frontier laid down by the Pretoria convention nor that (modified in their favour) drawn in the London convention.

He was only remembered in the neighbourhood as a man much loved and respected, who used to ride a black pony very fast, and whose known benevolence was much practised upon by beggars.

During the diet of 1839-1840 Deak succeeded in bringing about an understanding between a reactionary government, sadly in want of money, and a Liberal opposition determined that the nation should have its political privileges respected.

He was therefore not at all persona grata in Berlin, but the German imperial authorities learned by experience that he was an opponent to be respected, who understood thoroughly the interests of his country, and was quite capable of adopting if necessary a vigorous policy of reprisals.

Despite outbreaks from time to time of the Hook and Cod troubles, he was able to make his authority respected, and to help forward in many ways the social progress of the country.

In this capacity he became one of the most useful and respected upholders of the Liberal politics of the time.

Among other less judicious measures, a decree was passed ostensibly directed against all vagabond foreigners, but really aimed at the Jews, large numbers of whom, including many respected landowners and men of business, were imprisoned, or expelled, from Jassy, Bacau and other parts of Moldavia.

So strongly did Lord Roberts feel on the subject, that he at once made Colonel Brabant, a well-known and respected colonial veteran and member of the House of Assembly, a brigadier-general, and started recruiting loyal colonists in earnest.

The dignity of sherif (or grand sherif, as Europeans usually say for the sake of distinction, since all the kin of the princely houses reckoning descent from the Prophet are also named sherifs), although by no means a religious pontificate, is highly respected owing to its traditional descent in the line of Hasan, son of the fourth caliph `Ali.