by-respect
English edit
Noun edit
by-respect (plural by-respects)
- (obsolete) self-interest
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Discourse on Satire:
- From hence I may reasonably conclude, that Augustus, who was not altogether to good as he was wife, had some by-respect in the enacting of this law
References edit
- “by-respect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.