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RESPECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Receiving deferential regard
Example:
a respected family
Synonyms:
respected; well-thought-of
Classified under:
Similar:
reputable (having a good reputation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb respect
Context examples:
He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Opinions of respected authorities based on clinical experience, consensus statements from expert committees, or authoritative reviews.
(Level of Evidence IV, NCI Dictionary)
It only remains for us to find out what this secret was which the sailor Hudson seems to have held over the heads of these two wealthy and respected men.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not at all; he had, on the contrary, remarked that I had scrupulously respected every association: he feared, indeed, I must have bestowed more thought on the matter than it was worth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her feelings ought to be respected.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was always on friendly terms with her brother-in-law; and in the children, who loved her nearly as well, and respected her a great deal more than their mother, she had an object of interest, amusement, and wholesome exertion.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You dogged her and followed her and made her life a misery to her, in order to induce her to abandon the husband whom she loved and respected in order to fly with you, whom she feared and hated.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Wherever you and Jane are known you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of—or I may say, three—very silly sisters.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He oppressed the weak, but he respected the strong.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
