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With respect to

Respect \Re*spect"\, n. [L. respectus: cf. F. respect. See Respect, v., and cf. Respite.]

  1. The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.

    But he it well did ward with wise respect.
    --Spenser.

  2. Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.

    Seen without awe, and served without respect.
    --Prior.

    The same men treat the Lord's Day with as little respect.
    --R. Nelson.

  3. pl. An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.

  4. Reputation; repute. [Obs.]

    Many of the best respect in Rome.
    --Shak.

  5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the various benefits men received from him, had several titles. --Tillotson. 4. Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects. Everything which is imperfect, as the world must be acknowledged in many respects. --Tillotson. In one respect I'll be thy assistant. --Shak. 7. Consideration; motive; interest. [Obs.] ``Whatever secret respects were likely to move them.'' --Hooker. To the publik good Private respects must yield. --Milton. In respect, in comparison. [Obs.] --Shak. In respect of.

    1. In comparison with. [Obs.]
      --Shak.

    2. As to; in regard to. [Archaic] ``Monsters in respect of their bodies.''
      --Bp. Wilkins. ``In respect of these matters.''
      --Jowett. (Thucyd.)

      In respect to, or With respect to, in relation to; with regard to; as respects.
      --Tillotson.

      To have respect of persons, to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especially on account of friendship, power, wealth, etc. ``It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.''
      --Prov. xxiv. 23.

      Syn: Deference; attention; regard; consideration; estimation. See Deference.

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with respect to

prep. 1 regarding; concerning; pertaining to. 2 (label en mathematics) Taking as the independent variable.

Usage examples of "with respect to".

Even though we are traveling very fast with respect to the Sun, our speed is puny when the reference system is our local group of stars.

Emotionally he remains a boy, not only with respect to his mother but with respect to everything else.

And with respect to this grim task of procuring sacrificial victims for the furtherance of life, we have as an extreme example the ancient Aztec civilization, where it was supposed that unless human sacrifices were continually immolated on the numerous altars the sun itself would cease to move, time stop, and the universe fall apart.

This increased the relative speed of Duncan's knife with respect to Leto's shield, and the blade skittered off the buzzing protective wall.

If Captain Smith does not trust me with respect to my behaviour toward other people -‘.

In all seventeen computer simulations I performed, the results were virtually identical, varying only with respect to the rate at which the phylocite began to bond with the other elements comprising Ijuuka’.

Ideally, of course, we'd need another crew similarly placed with respect to the alien ship.

I said, I did not see why a man should act differently with respect to those of whom he thought ill when in health, merely because he was dying.

A Holdlord's daughter must always act and think with respect to her Dale, and I was heir as well.

WRA: So the answer, with respect to Weinberger, is the latter: it's not ideology, not a fear of communism so much as.

In the next flashes of light the shoes changed angle with respect to the pit and then abruptly disappeared.

This was clearly the West with respect to the Lartroxian supercontinent, and if Kane had not merely made a slip of the tongue.

That would be the second of your serious errors with respect to us.