Word Meanings - SELF-RESPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• LAUDABLE
  Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• LAUDABLENESS
  The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• RESPECTIVELY
  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.
• ESTEEMER
  One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke.
• RESPECTANT
  Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.
• RESPECTUOUS
  1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. Boyle. 2. Respectable. Knolles.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• RESPECTFUL
  Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment. With humble joi and with respectful fear. Prior. -- Re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*spect"ful*ness, n.
• REGARDING
  Concerning; respecting.
• RESPECT
  respectum, to look back, respect; pref. re- re- + specere, spicere, 1. To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed. Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• IRRESPECTIVE
  1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.