respectuous

English

Adjective

respectuous (comparative more respectuous, superlative most respectuous)

1. (obsolete) respectful
   • 1648, Robert Boyle, letter to Mr. Jones:

     I thought it pardonabler to say nothing by a respectuous silence

2. (obsolete) respectable
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     a great man, more amorous of her person than reſpectuous of her honour

References

“respectuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.