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unrespect

unrespect noun: a lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.

Noun

unrespect (uncountable)

  1. A lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.
    • Passionate with rains and sunshine, and, unheard, Have audience of your voices, but as one Who in a temple passes unrespect Between the kneeling suppliant and the saint, Meeting the uplifted face and the rapt eyes That look beyond?1875, Sydney Dobell, Balder. Later Miscellaneous Poems. Sonnets and other Short Poems
    • Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?1877, Clara Florida Guernsey, The Shawnee Prisoner

Origin of unrespect

From un- + respect.

Questions about unrespect

What does unrespect mean?
Unrespect means a lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.
What part of speech is unrespect?
Unrespect is a noun.

Words near unrespect in the dictionary

  1. unresounding
  2. unresourced
  3. unresourceful
  4. unresourcefully
  5. unresourcefulness
  6. unrespect
  7. unrespectability
  8. unrespectable
  9. unrespectables
  10. unrespectably
  11. unrespected

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