Crossword clues for respecter
respecter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respecter \Re*spect"er\ (-?r), n. One who respects.
A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality.
Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of
persons.
--Acts x. 34.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects. 2 A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".
WordNet
n. a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y"
Usage examples of "respecter".
Justice is represented as blind, in order that it may be seen she is no respecter of persons: and wert thou an Avoyer, the decree must come.
He was no respecter of persons, and treated the old and eminent lawyers quite as harshly as the youngsters.
He was a hearty laugher, a hard drinker, a common and peculiar failing of the age, a great respecter of the law, as was meet in one so situated, and a bachelor of sixty-eight, a time of life that, by referring his education to a period more remote by half a century, than that in which the incidents of our legend took place, was not at all in favor of any very romantic predilection in behalf of the rest of the human race.
Surely, senators, it is as competent for the private citizen to interpose such justification in answer to crime as it is for the President of the United States to interpose it, and for the simple reason that the Constitution is no respecter of persons, and vests neither in the President nor in the private citizen judicial power.
Half starved and half crazed, these bushrangers were no respecters of men, property, laws - or women.
In the Pickax hierarchy, the Brodies had always been respecters of the Duncans, and he had piped at Lynette's wedding.
What a mocker of our petty human dignity is this dyspepsia, bringing low the haughtiest of us, less than love itself a respecter of persons.
It is held that there should be no restraint not required by I general good, and that the law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save where dissimilarity of treatment is required by positive reasons, either of justice or of policy.
Hansen, his executive officer and clearly no respecter of persons, had said flatly that Swanson was the best submarine officer in the Navy.
And as thought is no respecter of persons, the thought of Chief Inspector Heat took a threatening and prophetic shape.
Since we have known that kind of yellow fever which is no respecter of persons, its name has been extended to the stranger's fever, and every species of bilious fever which produces a black vomit, that is to say, a discharge of very dark bile.