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Definition of Disrespects
1. disrespect [v] - See also: disrespect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disrespects
Literary usage of Disrespects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Furnace of Earth by Hallie Erminie Rives (1900)
"Your bad woman disrespects her soul; your good woman disrespects her body.
The wholesome woman disrespects neither and respects both. ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1889)
"He then proceeds, in his opening paper, " William Shakespeare and his /Esthetic
Critics," to pay his disrespects to Mr. Furnivall and other aesthetes and in ..."
3. The Religion of Old Glory by William Norman Guthrie (1919)
"... that such neglects should be regarded as disrespects, and such disrespects be
punished, in a more or less mortifying way, goes without saying. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"Not that he disrespects or despises dogmas ; only he must see them, in their
concrete aspect, directly influencing and moving men. ..."
5. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"Though thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, thy unkindness, disrespects,
disobedience, ingratitude, disloyalty shall not part us. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... Revenging all my disrespects, Of oH. with incapacity To chime with even its
harmless glee, Which sounds, from fields beyond my range, Like fairies' ..."
7. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"You will judge whether he disrespects me. As for him, he is a man; at his worst,
not one of the worst; at his best, better than very many. ..."
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