Word Finder - respects

definition

An attitude of consideration or high regard

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He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.

synonyms

• aught
• consideration
• deference
• esteem
• fealty
• regard
• reverence

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Good opinion, honor, or admiration

synonyms

• admiration
• esteem
• honor
• recognition
• regard
• reverence
• veneration

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(always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

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The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.

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A particular aspect, feature or detail of something

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This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.

synonyms

• aspect
• dimension
• face
• facet
• side

definition

Good will; favor

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To have respect for.

example

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.

I know how she loves and respects you.

The flora and fauna of Juan Fernandez are in most respects Chilean.

No one respects a one-person shop.

The new minister continued in most respects the policy of his predecessor.

To his translation (1530) of a Latin Chronicle and Description of Turkey, by a Transylvanian captive, which had been prefaced by Luther, he added an appendix holding up the Turks as in many respects an example to Christians, and presenting in lieu of the restrictions of Lutheran, Zwinglian and Anabaptist sects, the vision of an invisible spiritual church, universal in its scope.

In other respects his book is derived almost entirely from Christie.

Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew has been influenced in several respects (including the names Tranio and Grumio) by the Mostellaria.

At least I could pay my respects.

He wondered, too, about the sister's relationship, so close in some respects and so distant in others.

It seemed to Dean she'd spent her life on the outside, in some respects by choice, somehow driven from one social plane down to another, much lower, until there was nothing left but death.

The chief names in this advanced theology connected with Cartesian doctrines are Ludwig Meyer, the friend and editor of Spinoza, author of a work termed Philosophia scripturae interpres (1666); Balthasar Bekker, whose World Bewitched helped to discredit the superstitious fancies about the devil; and Spinoza, whose Tractatus theologico-politicus is in some respects the classical type of rational criticism up to the present day.

It burrows in the ground, but in other respects resembles bandicoots in habits.

Thus a large all-round increase in secondary and higher education is shownsatisfactory in many respects, but showing that more young men devote themselves to the learned professions (especially to the law) than the economic condition of the country will justify.

The xylem and phloem parenchyma consist of living cells, fundamentally similar in most respects to the medullary ray cells, which sometimes replace them altogether.

One somewhat similar phenomenon, differing in a few respects, marks the relation of the plant to the attraction of gravity.

They were, in those respects, far superior to the civil prisons of that day.

The Antillean Subregion is in many respects one of the most suggestive and interesting.

The moon-goddess was worshipped in the city with a pomp and ceremony in all respects analogous to those employed in the Cappadocian city.

This pope, so distinguished in many respects, owed his election Gregory mainly to the circumstance that he was considered XII., 1406- a zealous champion of the restoration of unity within 1415.

It gave no effects when the same magnetic poles or the contrary poles were on opposite sides (as respects the course of the polarized ray), nor when the same poles were on the same side either with the constant or intermitting current.

Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

You do not hide yourself when you pay your respects.

A cord circuit, similar in many respects, including the method .y.^9 Jr '' of operation, but equipped with condensers and impedance coils, in place of the repeating coil, is shown in fig.

Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.

The Sicilian enterprise had in some respects another character.

Ethics here stands to sociology in a close relation, similar, in many respects, to that which we find in Hegel and in Comte.

A second engine, the West Point, also built at West Point Foundry for the South Carolina railroad, differed from the Best Friend in having a horizontal boiler with 6 or 8 tubes, though in other respects it was similar.

Prior to this some companies had, to a certain extent, done these things, but few, if any, were completely equipped in these respects.

In certain respects, on the other hand, America has gone further than the United Kingdom, especially in the matter of automatic signalling, and in the operating of points and signals by electrical power or air-pressure instead of manual labour.

For suburban traffic with a service at a few minutes' interval and short distances between the stations electric traction has proved itself to be superior in many respects to the steam locomotive, but for main line traffic and long distance runs it has not yet been demonstrated that it is commercially feasible, though it is known to be practically possible.

The final Payne-Aldrich Act was approved by the President on the 5th of August 1909, though in many respects it was not the measure he desired.

It may be regarded as, in various important respects, the lineal predecessor of the American Whig and Republican parties.

His Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, while setting forth the Spencerian system, made psychological and sociological additions of original matter, in some respects anticipating Spencer's later conclusions.

O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the power of Sussex without a guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting that Elizabeth consented to measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian.

The Sephardic Jews in all these respects occupied a superior position, and they merited the partiality shown to them.

As a pastoral writer ("in some respects the best in the world," according to Leigh Hunt) he contributed, at an early stage, to the naturalistic reaction of the 18th century.

In this, as in so many other respects, the old Cretan tradition receives striking confirmation.

It is clear that the later traditions in many respects accurately summed up the performances of the " Minoan " dynast who carried out the great buildings now brought to light.

This is one of the many respects where Syriac has gained greater flexibility in syntax than Hebrew.

Farther south, in the Chinese provinces of Shansi and Shensi, the geological succession is similar in some respects to that of the Siberian Palaeozoic plateau, but the sequence is more complete.

Cochin-China is more nearly Chinese in all respects.

The division and, indeed, partial suppression of the coelom culminates in the leeches, which in this, as in some other respects, are the most modified of Annelids.

These worms are in some respects like the Sabellids (Cryptocephala).

Malory's version of the Charrette adventure differs in many respects from any other extant form, and the source of this special section of his work is still a question of debate among scholars.

Von Hartmann's doctrine of the Unconscious is in many respects similar to Schopenhauer's doctrine of the Will.

Protestantism was professed by a large number of the inhabitants; and in many respects their characteristics identified them rather with the race to the east than that to the west of the Rhine.

The Order was from the first, therefore, of a national character, unlike the cosmopolitan orders of the Templars and Hospitallers; but in other respects it was modelled upon the same lines, and shared in the same development.

As, however, the manure of the animals of the farm is valuable largely in proportion to the nitrogen it contains, there is, so far, an advantage in giving a food somewhat rich in nitrogen, provided it is in other respects a good one, and, weight for weight, not much more costly.

The standard of life of the ordinary well-to-do middle class in England, for example, includes not only food, clothing and shelter of a kind different in many respects from that of a similar class in other countries and of other classes in England, but a highly complicated mechanism, both public and private, for ministering to these primary needs, habits of social intercourse, educational and sanitary organization, recreative arrangements and many other elements.