单词 | respecter |
释义 | respectern. A person who or thing which respects someone or something, in various senses of the verb.Frequently in respecter of persons: a person who or thing which favours one person or group of people over another (chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in to be no respecter of persons; cf. to respect no persons at person n. Phrases 1); also in variants or echoes of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > one who shows respect honourera1425 respectera1579 Schweik1965 a1579 H. Balnaves Confession of Faith (1584) xxiv. 202 God is not a respecter of the person of man. 1580 A. Fleming tr. N. Hemmingsen Epist. Ephesians 63 That God is no respecter of persons [L. sed quod apud Deum non sit προσωποληψία], there are manie places of scripture which giue manifest proofe. 1592 R. Hill tr. W. Perkins Golden Chaine (ed. 2) liv. 409 If God did elect some, and reiect others, he must needs be (προσωπολήπτης) a respecter of persons. 1598 T. James in tr. A. Brucioli Comm. Canticle of Canticles Ep. Ded. sig. *3v But God, the God of the Gentiles as well as of the Iewes, the God of Italians as of Englishmen, no accepter of persons, or respecter of place. 1606 R. Alison Howres Recreation in Musicke Ep. Ded. sig. A2 (heading) To the right worthily honored and most free Respecter of all vertue. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 104 Whereby they may become his diligont attenders and hearty respecters. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 607 He was going to be judged by one who was no respecter of persons. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xxxviii. 186 Should you, madam,..be unwilling to see the Count as a friend of your family, as a respecter of your great qualities, as a country-man? 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. vi. 215 This accusation is brought against you by a respecter of truth. 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. iii. 25 This venerable respecter of the rights of man. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 128 To teach them that their King was no respecter of persons. 1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 437/1 Her father though not a professed member was..a great respecter of religion. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 124/2 Blue mold is no respecter of persons. It happens in the best regulated of families. 1946 K. Loewenstein Polit. Reconstruction i. ii. 27 By no means..is Britain's record as the scrupulous respecter of foreign sovereignties unblemished. 1977 V. Glendinning Elizabeth Bowen viii. 146 Love, death, fear and bombs are none of them respecters of persons. 2004 M. Drabble Red Queen 72 Smallpox..was an ever-present threat, and no respecter of persons or place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1579 |
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