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Definition of Respectiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Respectiveness
Literary usage of Respectiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"... I rest Yor worships in all due respectiveness. HENRY SMITH. * Henry Smith came
over in the fleet with Winthrop. and settled at Dorchester. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"You are very respectively welcome, sir. Tim. Ath., iii, 1 Sir, she ever For your
sake most respectively loved me. Respectiveness.''""'Ci*">M''Rae B. 4- Ft. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1865)
"28, the charge is to the particular elders of Ephesus, to that whole flock), he
therefore puts in that note of respectiveness, li £./*Д, among you, that is, ..."
4. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius, James Nichols (1825)
"... and espoused sentiments concerning the respectiveness of God's decrees, widely
different from those he had formerly held.—PIERCE'S Divine Philanthropy ..."
5. The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel by Charles Patrick Meehan (1868)
"Seeing, therefore, that neglect of good laws for respectiveness to persons, either
for greatness or religion (for the rich devil hath ever more friends than ..."
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