Definitions for respects

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respects re·spect

Spelling: [ri-spekt]

IPA: /rɪˈspɛkt/

Respects is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in respects (ceeprsst).

Definitions for respects

noun

1. a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
2. relation or reference:
3. esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability:
4. deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment:
5. the condition of being esteemed or honored:
6. respects, a formal expression or gesture of greeting, esteem, or friendship:
7. favor or partiality.
8. Archaic. a consideration.

Idioms

1. in respect of, in reference to; in regard to; concerning.
2. in respect that, Archaic. because of; since.
3. pay one's respects, to visit in order to welcome, greet, etc.: to express one's sympathy, especially to survivors following a death:
4. with respect to, referring to; concerning:

verb (used with object)

1. to hold in esteem or honor:
2. to show regard or consideration for:
3. to refrain from intruding upon or interfering with:
4. to relate or have reference to.

Origin of respects

1300-50; (noun) Middle English (Old French) Latin respectus action of looking back, consideration, regard, equivalent to respec-, variant stem of respicere to look back (re- Examples for respects

As respects our House of Representatives, it would in principle be the same.

Fraternities are almost as old as the United States and they are, in some respects, synonymous with it.

Now to compare ISIS radicals and Ferguson looters is not to say that they are the same in all respects.

Nor is it any objection to her being so, that she is not in all respects a perfect character.

The recreations of young Gladstone were not in all respects like his school-mates.

This Gaza war has been in some respects part of a wider fight among Arabs.

On Sunday one of its halls teemed with activists, some of them former political prisoners, paying their respects.

But she respects grit and determination, in allies and opponents alike.

As respects this allocation, how would I modify that instrument?

As a result we accentuate morals in these respects, but not in any others.