| 单词 | in respect |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin respect (a) By comparison, comparatively. Cf. Phrases 2b(a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [adverb] at or in regardc1450 in comparison1470 in respect1532 comparatively1597 by comparison1807 alongside1831 comparingly1882 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlvv Although I hadde lytel in respecte amonge other great and worthy, yet had I a faire parcel. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 148 Bondemenne are in respecte and comparison, the feete of their maisters. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 91 What will remaine? ah nothing (in respect). 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. iii. 269 That all commanding country is possessed by petty Princes, Rome a smal Village in respect. (b) With following clause: in the event that, in case. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 8 Some forbeare it not vpon negligence alone, but doubting to bring themselues into Melancholy in respect they shall finde it broken. in respect (that) d. in respect (that): seeing that, in view of the fact that, considering that, since; in that. Now chiefly Law. ΚΠ 1542 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 17 May (1933) 97 But in respecte that God hath ordened his Majestie to be soo gret a prince.., his Majestie shuld not let Christendom perish in his tyme. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. b.jv Not one of vs all, is ony whit prouder of it, then woold be the tooth that hathe byt the tung, ootherwise then in respect that they wear our mortal enemies. 1570 G. Fenton tr. J. de Serres Disc. Ciuile Warres Fraunce iii. 207 The Catholykes demaunded to parley with the Lorde de Pilles, whereunto he listened with lesse difficultie, in respecte he was not furnished wt munition of war for one assault more. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 15 In respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth mee well. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Evelyn Let. 14 May in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 53 How to prevent future ruin, in respect some of us are for an universal toleration; others, for English freedom only? 1670 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. 5 Nov. Admittis Andro Caig..frieman gratis in respect he is maried vpon ane friemanis doughter. 1785 in R. M. Fergusson Logie Parish Hist. (1905) I. xxiv. 286 To prosecute John Williamson..for the payment of 4s. Sterling as the price of the Mortcloth in respect he had used another at the Interment of his Father. 1806 Scots Mag. May 395/1 The prisoner's Counsel moved the Court to delay sentence against her, in respect that she is pregnant. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. xiii. 376 I did not like him so well, in respect he was not so good-natured. 1876 W. E. Gladstone in Church Q. Rev. July 495 To a bad clergyman this may be an advantage, in respect that it allows him to remain bad, and to grow worse with impunity. 1905 Cases decided House of Lords VII. 6 The said conviction and sentence should be set aside in respect that the names of the witnesses examined are not noted in the record of proceedings as required by statute. 1957 Times 3 Apr. 15/3 She was not entitled to any payment as widow's rights in respect that in the deed of separation she agreed to have no rights in the estate of her husband. 1986 J. McConica Hist. Univ. Oxf. III. x. 697 His mother gave a white tankard in respect that her son Robert had been admitted to the table of the president as a commoner. 2002 M. A. Hogg in A. Boyle et al. Human Rights & Scots Law xi. 242 Article 8 had been violated in respect that there had been interference with his right to family life. < as lemmas |
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