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/rɪspˈɛktɪv/ /rispˈɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Respective adj.

Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. (Obs.) "If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not... refuse this charge."

Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society.

Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode.

Fitted to awaken respect. (Obs.)

Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. (Obs.) "With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands." "With thy equals familiar, yet respective."

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... of the almost unimaginable ease with which these skilful mathematicians allow themselves to be confused. Their inquiry has ignored the age of the parents at marriage—or, better still, at the births of their respective children—and has assumed that the number of the family was the all-important point: a good example of that idolatry of number as number which is the "freak religion" of the biometrician. Supposing that the conclusion ...

— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby

... Switzerland, which almost from the very origin of that confederacy rested upon the closeness of its connection with France, on which the Swiss Cantons wholly reposed themselves for the preservation of the parts of their body in their respective rights and permanent forms, as well as for the maintenance of all in ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Union men, who are of and for their country against all comers, who neither commit treason openly nor disguise their cowardly treachery under the shallow cover of neutrality, are to wield the power of their respective States, and to be the only recognized inhabitants. All others must submit or fly. If the Governor and Legislature of Virginia have renounced their allegiance to the United States, and undertaken to establish a foreign ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various

... execution to Angelico's Ave Rabbi! with its elaborate landscape of towers and fruit trees. Again, in a series of predella histories of the Virgin, in the same place, also a very mediocre and anonymous work, there is extraordinary charm in the conception of the respective positions of Mary and Joseph at their wedding: he is quite old and grey; she young, unformed, almost a child, and she has to stand on two steps to be on his level, raising her head with a beautiful, childlike earnestness, quite unlike the conventional bridal timidity ...

— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... illustrations. You jump at the convenient conclusion that these structures of from six to ten stories had to do with the religion of the country, which surmise is erroneous, for the towers were reared to guard the geomantic properties of their respective neighborhoods, and in reality are relics of a bygone ...

— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

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