RESPECTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respects mean? 

• RESPECTS (noun)
  The noun RESPECTS has 1 sense:

1. (often used with 'pay') a formal expression of esteem

  Familiarity information: RESPECTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPECTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often used with 'pay') a formal expression of esteem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he paid his respects to the mayor

Hypernyms ("respects" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

 Context examples 

Grant, who was anxious to pay his respects to Sir Thomas, and at rather an early hour they were ushered into the breakfast-room, where were most of the family.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He promised to join me here, and pay his respects to you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She likes you, I am sure, said I, as I stood behind his chair, and her father respects you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It will be more painful to me in some respects to be in company with him, but I shall know better what to do.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But I say, Miss Morland, I shall come and pay my respects at Fullerton before it is long, if not disagreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“I thought her looking as she always does: superior, in all respects, to everyone around her,” I returned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“But,” he added, “you will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them, with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you while you have been here.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I turned about several times to the company, paid my humble respects, said they were welcome, and used some other speeches I had been taught.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A sterile preparation for parenteral use which, upon the addition of suitable solvents, yields a solution conforming in all respects to the requirements for Injections.

(Concentrated Injectable Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)