respecting

Verb

respect (third-person singular simple present respects, present participle respecting, simple past and past participle respected)

1. To have respect for.
   • She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

   Synonyms:

   esteem, honor, revere, venerate, idolize, lay store by, look up to, prize, hallow, put store by

   Antonyms:

   contemn, despect, disrespect, despise, disdain, disesteem, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn

2. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
   • I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.
3. To abide by an agreement.
   • They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

   Synonyms:

   honor

4. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
   • [T]hou reſpecteſt not ſpilling Edwards bloud: [...]1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597...

   Synonyms:

   esteem, take note, value, attend, clock, consider, give heed, heed, let in on, mark

   Antonyms:

   belittle, ignore, neglect, slight, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel

5. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
   • Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.1674, John Owen, Pneumatologia
6. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
   • [T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, [...]c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]

   Synonyms:

   account, hold, find, appraise, count, esteem, see, censure, consider, deem

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