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irrespective, a. and adv.|ɪrɪˈspɛktɪv|
[ir-2.]
Not respective; without respect or regard.
†1. Not respectful, disrespectful. Obs.
1640R. Baillie Canterb. Self-convict. 25 His followers are become so wicked and irrespective, as to..cast their owne misdeeds upon the broad back of the Prince. 1654in Cabbala Suppl. 101 Irreverend and Irrespective behaviour towards my self and some of mine.
2. Characterized by disregard of particular persons, circumstances, or conditions. Now rare.
1650A. A. Repl. Sanderson 10 Our Author hath shewn how impossible it is that any Promissory Oath can be absolute and irrespective. 1658South Serm. (1744) VIII. xiii. 354 The execution of that decree in conferring grace upon one, and withholding it from the other, is equally free and irrespective. a1660Hammond Wks. I. 462 (R.) These two doctrines, 1. of Christ's dying for none but the elect, 2. of God's absolute irrespective decrees of election and reprobation, are inconvenient interpositions. a1672Wren in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 229 In the matter of irrespective decrees, Election, and Reprobation. 1833Coleridge Table-t. 14 Aug., He..oversteps, in his irrespective zeal, every decency and every right opposed to his course. 1857Baden Powell Christianity without Judaism 44 The grand dogma of the eternal, arbitrary, irrespective, irreversible decrees.
3. Existing or considered without respect or regard to something else; without taking account of, independent of.
1694Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 7 A man does not delight in an Advantage..so much for it's own irrespective Goodness, as because others want it. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1873) III. v. 416 The science has a speculative interest, which is irrespective of all practical considerations.
b. Now chiefly in adverbial construction, qualifying a verb expressed or understood; = irrespectively. Const. of.
1839Times 15 July in Spirit Metropol. Conserv. Press (1840) II. 171 Their announced determination to empower Scotch Dissenters to print the bible jure coronae, irrespective of parliamentary sanction. 1849R. I. Wilberforce Holy Bapt. (1850) 129 Whether..anything is..done by God, irrespective of the instrumentality of mortals. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvi. 373 Irrespective of the snow, the mere tendency of the dirt to accumulate [etc.]. 1883C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 253 The application of the funds was carried out irrespective of the religion of the applicants. |