respects

IPA: rɪspˈɛkts

noun

  • (often with "last" or "final) regards or respect expressed for a deceased person, usually at the same time as offering condolences to other mourners.
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Examples of "respects" in Sentences

  • She said “they seem to have gone backwards” in some respects from a period when J.C. Watts was in congress.
  • The “Jesus” to whom the Moslems pay their respects is a wholly imaginary construct, having little in common with the Gospel Jesus except his name.
  • Religious titles, institutional limitations, ecclesiastical authorities no longer fit this congregation, which in most respects is Post-Christian.
  • And, Jason, let me begin in the northern city of Monterey, which, in some respects, is booming, auto parts factories there rebounding this year after a dismal 2009.
  • In certain respects, the public figure that Simmons most clearly resembles is the early David Letterman, although Letterman has never tried to seem like an average guy.
  • Seriously, these quips about Woodrow Wilson and how his well-documented authoritarian tendencies are somehow the collective responsibility of self-identified modern progressives (a different animal in many respects from the Progressivism of TR and Wilson) or those on the left side of the political spectrum mystify me.

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