irrespectiveadj.adv.
/ɪrɪˈspɛktɪv/ Not respective; without respect or regard.† 1. Not respectful, disrespectful. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [adjective]
respectless1591
unrespecting1592
unrespective1593
unrespectful1595
unfestival1603
disrespective1623
irrespective1640
cavalier1657
disrespectfula1677
irrespectuose1677
irrespectful1678
undervaluing-like1782
slightening1916
1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις ii. 25 His followers are become so wicked and irrespective, as to..cast their owne misdeeds upon the broad back of the Prince.
1654 in 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.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective]
blinda1400
unchoosinga1586
undiscerning1589
unrespective1609
irrespecting1625
promiscuous1633
incurious1645
indistinct1650
irrespective1650
uncritical1659
indiscerning1664
undistinguishing1665
undistinguishable1702
unrefining1735
indiscriminating1754
undiscriminating1776
indiscriminate1792
unfastidious1816
rough1819
lumping1827
indistinguishing1828
unparticularizing1828
farraginous1837
imperceiverant1844
scattergun1845
undistinctive1851
indiscriminative1854
unselecting1895
scattershot1961
1650 A. Ascham Reply to Paper of Dr. Sandersons 10 Our Author hath shewn how impossible it is that any Promissory Oath can be absolute and irrespective.
a1660 H. Hammond 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.
a1672 M. Wren in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 229 In the matter of irrespective decrees, Election, and Reprobation.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 354 The execution of that decree in conferring grace upon one, and withholding it from the other, is equally free and irrespective.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 14 Aug. He..oversteps, in his irrespective zeal, every decency and every right opposed to his course.
1857 B. Powell Christianity without Judaism 44 The grand dogma of the eternal, arbitrary, irrespective, irreversible decrees.
3.
a. Existing or considered without respect or regard to something else; without taking account of, independent of.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective] > independent of
irrespective1689
1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 7 A man does not delight in an Advantage..so much for its own irrespective goodness, as because others want it.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (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 adv. Const. of.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adverb] > independently
without respect1528
irrespectively1648
independently1651
irrespective1839
unrespective1845
unrespectively1963
1839 Times 15 July in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) II. 171 Their announced determination to empower Scotch Dissenters to print the bible jure coronae, irrespective of parliamentary sanction.
1849 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Holy Baptism (1850) 129 Whether..anything is..done by God, irrespective of the instrumentality of mortals.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxvi. 373 Irrespective of the snow, the mere tendency of the dirt to accumulate [etc.].
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 253 The application of the funds was carried out irrespective of the religion of the applicants.
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