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Webster 1913 Edition
Respecter
Re-spect′er
(-?r)
, Noun.
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. 34.
Webster 1828 Edition
Respecter
RESPECT'ER
,Noun.
I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts. 10.
Definition 2024
respecter
respecter
English
Noun
respecter (plural respecters)
- One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, chapter 2
- For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other..
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, chapter 2
- A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin respectō, respectāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
respecter
- to respect
Conjugation
Conjugation of respecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | respecter | avoir respecté | |||||
| gerund | en respectant | en ayant respecté | |||||
| present participle | respectant /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | respecté /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/ |
respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ |
respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
| imperfect | respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ |
respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ |
respectait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ |
respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/ |
respectaient /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | respectai /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ |
respectas /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ |
respecta /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ |
respectâmes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tam/ |
respectâtes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tat/ |
respectèrent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | respecterai /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
respecteras /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
respectera /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
respecterons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
respecterez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
respecteront /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
respecterait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
respecterions /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
respecteriez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁje/ |
respecteraient /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/ |
respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
| imperfect1 |
respectasse /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ |
respectasses /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ |
respectât /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/ |
respectassions /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
respectassiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sje/ |
respectassent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/ |
— | respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/ |
respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/ |
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