单词 | respectuous |
释义 | respectuousadj. Now rare. 1. Showing or marked by respect or deference; respectful.In many instances apparently representing ad hoc (sometimes humorous) anglicization of a corresponding foreign word. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 62 A certaine respectuous reverence [Fr. une reuerence respectueuse] which they bare unto their Reader and Doctour. 1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 35 Our superiours we ought to reverence by a respectuous silence. 1691 in A. Holmes Mem. French Protestants Oxford, Mass. (1826) 61 Tis the sincere wish of your most respectuous servant D. Bondet. 1782 J. R. Forster Let. 27 Apr. in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1958) 102 4/1 [This] is the sincere wish, together with the most respectuous regard, of Sir Your most obedt humble Servant Forster. 1866 F. Larrazabal Life S. Bolivar I. xxx. 407 He..made an honorable and respectuous commemoration of the distinguished patriotism of the secular and regular clergy of New Granada. 1904 G. Ystridde Three Dukes iii. iv. 301 You are not enough respectuous, perhaps, but one cannot expect everything. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) vii. 72 Making himself strange always sooner than familiar with the Queen, towards whom he maintained..a discreet respectuous reverence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [adjective] worthfulOE honourablea1393 courteousa1475 respecting1573 respective1579 respectful1593 louting1602 respectuous1610 honouring1614 assenting1752 deferent1822 deferential1822 deferring1829 unscornful1897 Schweikist1968 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [adjective] > worthy of or commanding respect honourablec1384 redoubtable1421 respectable1603 respectuous1610 respective1611 respectful1613 1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1217 Neither is it to be maruelled..if they [sc. princes] become respectuous and admirable in the eyes and sight of the common people. 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 151 He endeavoured to evade it, by shewing that it departed from a more mean, and less respectuous hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1603 |
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