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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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"Respective" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the Princesse de Lamballe, with the Queen's marginal notes in her own handwriting, and the answers dictated by Her Majesty to the different, officers of the departments relative to the nature of the respective demands. She always recommended the greatest attention to all public documents, and annexed notes to such as passed through her hands to prevent their being thrown aside ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... was much troubled, however, with scorpions and other reptiles, which issued from the earth forming the walls of my apartment; and later in the summer by the gnats and sandflies which hovered on a calm night over the river." It is difficult to decide between the respective merits of this novel summer retreat and of the winter dwelling, ambitiously constructed of mud bricks dried in the sun, and roofed with solid wooden beams. This imposing residence, in which Layard spent the last months of his first winter in Assyria, ...

— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin

... placed, on a narrow mountain ridge. The west window looks down the valley of the Balasun river, the east into that of the Mahanuddee: both of these rise from the outer range, and flow in broad, deep, and steep valleys (about 4000 feet deep) which give them their respective names; and are richly wooded from the Terai to their tops. Till reaching this spur, I had wound upwards along the western slope of the Mahanuddee valley. The ascent from the spur at Kursiong, to the top of the mountain (on the northern face of which Dorjiling is situated), is along the eastern ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... a little, to be sure, but I think her mind was set at rest; and she told me, very explicitly, to follow the path until I came to the end of the wood, and then I should see the village below me in the bottom of the valley. And, with mutual courtesies, the little old maid and I went on our respective ways." ...

— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... entered the house, and went up to their respective rooms. Fires were burning brightly in each and ...

— The Time of Roses • L. T. Meade

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