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849 words match “REGARD”

REGARD v. 18 definitions

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak.

Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

REGARDANT a. 3 definitions

Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. [He] turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.

REGARDER n. 2 definitions

One who regards.

Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South.

REGARDING prep.

Concerning; respecting.

REGARDLESS a. 2 definitions

Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton.

DISREGARD v. 2 definitions

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.

One who disregards.

DISREGARDFUL a.

Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.

DISREGARDFULLY adv.

Negligently; heedlessly.

Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] Spenser.

NONREGARDANCE n.

Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [Obs.] Shak.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

tract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without application…

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT n.

The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey.

(Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.