Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not regarding circumstances or conditions; devoid of respect or consideration; regardless; unthinking.
- Not respected; used at random; unheeded; common.
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Examples
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I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with,
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The rest of the scene, grass and flowers "in unrespective same," formed
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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In her temper, too, there is a slight infusion of the termagant; and her satirical humor plays with such an unrespective levity over all subjects alike, that it required a profound knowledge of women to bring such a character within the pale of our sympathy.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.”
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-- unrespective _fame_; for which the modern editions have silently printed,
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas. "
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with, "Pray, walk into the back-shop, Captain.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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II. ii.71 (48,7) unrespective sieve] That is, into a _common voider_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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