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Respect
King James Dictionary
or RESPECT', L. respecto, or respectus, from respicio re and specio, to view.
1. To regard to have regard to in design or purpose.
In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground for fruits, trees and herbs.
2. To have regard to, in relation or connection to relate to. The treaty particularly respects our commerce.
3. To view or consider with some degree of reverence to esteem as possessed of real worth.
I always loved and respected Sir William.
4. To look towards.
Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the south. Not in use.
To respect the person, to suffer the opinion or judgment to be influenced or biased by a regard to the outward circumstances of a person, to the prejudice of right and equity.
Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor. Leviticus 19 .
Neither doth God respect any person. 2 Samuel 14 .
RESPECT', n. L. respectus.
1. Regard attention.
2. That estimation or honor in which men hold the distinguished worth or substantial good qualities of others. It expresses less than reverence and veneration, which regard elders and superiors whereas respect may regard juniors and inferiors.
Respect regards the qualities of the mind, or the actions which characterize those qualities.
Seen without awe, and serv'd without respect.
3. That deportment or course of action which proceeds from esteem regard due attention as, to treat a person with respect.
These same men treat the sabbath with little respect.
4. Good will favor.
The Lord had respect to Abel and his offering. Genesis 4 .
5. Partial regard undue bias to the prejudice of justice as the phrase, respect of persons. 1 Peter 1 . James 2 . Proverbs 24 .
6. Respected character as persons of the best respect in Rome.
7. Consideration motive in reference to something.
Whatever secret respects were likely to move them -
8. Relation regard reference followed by of, but more properly by to.
They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the benefits men received from him, had several titles.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Respect'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/respect.html.
