Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being respective; regard or respect had to anything.
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- noun The state or quality of being
respective .
Etymologies
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respective + -ness
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Examples
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The principle, every thing for every thing and all together one, is so exact, that every atom and tiniest insect feels the touch, in fact, of every heaviest, highest, and remotest orb, and every such orb a respectiveness of action reaching downward, after every such minim of matter and life.
Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876
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Now, to this grace commending your spirit, as an heir of grace, I rest, — Your Honour’s at all obliged respectiveness in the grace of God.
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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