Definition of Disrespecting

1. Verb. (present participle of disrespect) ¹

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Definition of Disrespecting

1. disrespect [v] - See also: disrespect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disrespecting

disreputable person
disreputableness
disreputably
disreputation
disrepute
disreputes
disrespect
disrespectability
disrespectable
disrespected
disrespecter
disrespecters
disrespectful
disrespectfully
disrespectfulness
disrespecting
disrespective
disrespects
disreverence
disreverenced
disreverences
disreverencing
disrobe
disrobed
disrober
disrobers
disrobes
disrobing
disroof
disroofed

Literary usage of Disrespecting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vision: A Magazine for Youth (1890)
"My reasons for disrespecting it were these: I had read "Fox's Book of Martyrs," •"Lives of the British Reformers" and other works showing forth the cruel ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... over scoundrels I go the length of disrespecting, and in some cases even of detesting. Yes, my friends, scoundrel is ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"... hating, despising, or disrespecting the nobility, gentry, and superior clergy." "The nobility and chief gentry of England have been, even by strangers, ..."

4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"For disrespecting all price, they first demand their Tartar captives in exchange of ours, which often promising the same and not able to performe it, ..."

5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"... disrespecting his own bishop, shall make conventions apart, or erect an altar," (viz. without the bishop's license,) " let him be deposed b;" clearly ..."

6. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"For disrespecting all price, they first demand their Tartar captives in exchange of ours, which often promising the same and not able to performe it, ..."

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