regard
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From Old French regarder (“‘look at, observe, regard’”) < re- + garder (“‘to keep, heed, mark’”); see guard; cf. reward.
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regard (plural regards)
- One's concern for another; esteem.
- (preceded by “in” or “with”) aspect; detail; manner; respect; sense
- 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
- 1903, Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report, page 186:
- We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard [...].
- 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:
- These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.
- 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
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concern for another
aspect; detail
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to regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)
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