Citations:irregardless

English citations of irregardless

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1. (nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes humorous) Irrespective, regardless. [from mid 19th c.]
   • 1795 June 23, City Gazette & Daily Advertiser, Charleston, page 3:

     But death, irregardless of tenderest ties

   • 1873, Joseph Simms M.D., An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical ..., A New Physiognomical Chart of Character., Dunn & Wright, page 106, caption:

     B. Goese, Esq., of London, who gave indiscriminately to every object irregardless of its worthiness, and could not bear to destroy anything.

   • 1875, “History”, in Grand Excursion to New Orleans: Reed Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Stationed at Dayton, Ohio, on Board the Steamer Thomas Sherlock, Dayton, Oh.: Journal Steam Job Printing Establishment, →OCLC, page 51:

     Dear loved ones were unceremoniously hurried off home, irregardless to any previous arrangement, where they could sit down and recount the incidents of the trip to those who had been left behind, and where they were welcomed with the hearty greeting, "Home again."

   • 1875 August 14, T. D. Crothers M.D., “American Contributions to Military Hygiene and Surgery”, “Communications”, Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, volume XXXIII, number 7, page 123:

     In the Prussian service all hygienic responsibility ended when a warm hospital building was secured, irregardless of bad air.

   • 1875 September 15–22, T. N. Bennie, “Co-operation.”, “Correspondence.”, Capital and Labour., volume 2, page 542:

     God’s laws are above human laws or wisdom, and as the spire built irregardless of line and plumb cannot stand long, so any temporary good we obtain will as certainly come to an end if our demand has been unjust.

   • 1876 April 8, “Various Topics”, The Chronicle, Chronicle Association, University of Michigan, volume VII, number XII, page 139:

     They would need a managing editor who would not allow their productions to appear irregardless of orthography.

   • 1877, “Letter from Max.”, “Correspondence”, Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gardener, A.M. Purdy, volumes 9–10, page 179:

     It is no wonder to me, that so many planters fail in fruit-growing; the majority of them plant irregardless of the sub-soil.

   • 1888, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, U.S. Government Printing Office:

     this would be beneficial for civil defense purposes; and irregardless of the necessity for the main line, it was shown that there is a need for continuation of direct rail service

   • 1893, The Chemical Trade Journal and Oil, Paint and Colour Review, Davis Bros.:

     The figures, therefore, for nitrogen as nitrogen show the amount of nitrogen present irregardless of how it occurs.

   • 1895, Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, American Microscopical Society, page 66, caption:

     Incidence of E. lizae (circles), H. xanthophilus (squares), and K. branchiata (triangles) on L. xanthurus by fish length class irregardless of month of fish capture.

   • 1898, John Murray, “Part II. The Expedition from the Prince’s Landing to His Arrival at Derby.”, in Robert Fitzroy Bell, editor, Memorials of John Murray of Broughton: Sometime Secretary to Prince Charles Edward, 1740–1747: […] (Publications of the Scottish History Society; 27), Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for the Scottish History Society, →OCLC, page 160:

     Mr. M^cg. [Rob Roy MacGregor], far from being unsusceptable of flatterry,^[sic] irregardless of his own private interest, readily assented, and had a paper dictated to him to the following purpose: […]

   • 1916, The Best Short Stories...and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, Houghton Mifflin Co, page 203:

     But however, as I say, Harry, Hubert always knew that all he had to do was come to me, and I would act like a big buddy to him, irregardless.

   • 1918, U.S. National Bureau of Standards, NBS Special Publication, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 69:

     In the case of a substitutional impurity, the mass difference between the impurity atom and a normal atom will lead to scattering of photons, irregardless of the associated strain field.

   • 1919, George Wehrle, American gas works practice: Standard practical methods in gas fitting, distribution and works management, Gas age handbook series, iv, Progressive Age Publishing Co.:

     All gang foremen, either main, service or maintenance, and irregardless of whether they are working foremen or supervisory only […]

   • 1920, Two Bells, Los Angeles Railway Corporation:

     Then complete training on the front end is given irregardless of whether the man was a motorman or conductor previously.

   • 1920 January, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character, Boni and Liveright, page 230:

     In any case we are glad to be out of it . . . irregardless of what we may be into; irregardless of whether the communications among intelligent people are but the mirage of a minute Thebaid seen from a chaos wholly insuperable.

   • 1932, Paul Myron Linebarger, The Gospel of Chung Shan, Dubois & Bauer, page 164:

     A mutual service in a common cause irregardless of a common […]

   • 1946, Paul Maslow, The Analysis and Control of Human Experiences, page 29:

     […] won self-created theories on the basis of personal need irregardless of the substance of the outerworld.

   • 1952, Harry Edward Bailey and Ralph Edward Phinney, Statistical Analysis of Pressure Measurements, University of Michigan, Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Engineering Research Institute:

     Since the standard deviations of p/p_b are the same irregardless of the value of p/p_b and hence the Mach number, it seems probable that the cause is an error in reading

   • 1957, Russell Napoleon Cassel, The Psychology of Instruction, Christopher Pub. House, page 95:

     Irregardless of the state of completion of an act or activity, the presence of success or failure is present only in the mind of the learner.

   • 1971, John Miller Cooper, Selected Topics on Biomechanics, Athletic Institute:

     Many of [the] earlier studies have accepted the false assumption that the administrative score or the height jumped vertically was indicative of the development of power irregardless of weight and stature.

   • 1976 September, J. Calvin Giddings et al. (editors), Advances in Chromatography, Marcel Dekker, volume 14, page 76:

     Irregardless of the surface properties of the inorganic support the chemically bonded stationary phases have the following advantages if compared with the conventional stationary (active solid or stationary liquid) phases

   • 1977, American Indian Policy Review Commission, Final Report, U.S. Government Printing Office:

     The proportion of Indians (irregardless of degree of blood) contained in the “core” of cultural Indians constitutes a good measure of the degree of acculturation experiences by the tribe.

   • 1979 June, Richard T. Antoun, Low Key Politics: Local-Level Leadership and Change in the Middle East, State University of New York Press, page 262:

     I have completely neglected a social psychological point of view which would focus on the emotional disposition of individuals toward leaders irregardless of overt postures of support.

   • 1980, U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, Needs of Elementary and Secondary Education in the 1980's: A Compendium of Policy Papers, U.S. Government Printing Office:

     They have a propietary interest in maintaining the schools as they now are, irregardless of the functions which the schools should serve.

   • 1981, William E. Jackson, “Reinmar’s Women”, German Language and Literature Monographs, John Benjamins B.V., Amsterdam, volume 9:

     I have followed the oldest attesting source irregardless of which poet this source credits with authorship of a given stanza.

   • 1983, Hans-Peter Rossmanith, Rock Fracture Mechanics, Springer, page 143:

     Irregardless of whether plasticity corrections or a bilinear K_R-curve with increasing post-critical part are necessary to obtain values at the K_JC level, LPD measurment become necessary.

   • 1993, Voting Rights ACT Language Assistance Amendments of 1992: Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary:

     My linguistic research and training (I have a Ph.D. in linguistics) is primarily on the Tohnono O'odham language, my native language.... Irregardless, I might add that...

   • 1995 January, Marco Svolacchia, Lunella Mereu, Annarita Puglielli, “Aspects of Discourse Configurationality in Somali”, in Katalin É. Kiss, editor, Discourse Configurational Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax), New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 67:

     Clitic resumptive pronouns are a major feature in Somali syntax. Object resumptive pronouns corresponding to arguments must always occur (with 3rd pers. pronoun=Ø) irregardless of the presence and position of the full coindexed object NPs [noun phrases].

   • 1995 September, Paul N. Cheremisinoff and Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Waste Minimization and Cost Reduction for the Process Industries, Noyes Publications:

     Since many hazardous substances are not as yet regulated, annual expenditures, in all likelihood, will continue to increase in light of risks and liabilities involved and irregardless of regulation changes.

   • 1997 January 15, Faculty Senate Regular Meeting, Central Washington University:

     All costs for snow removal may come from the University's budget irregardless of any emergency declarations

   • 1997 July 17, Steve Buyer, “Sexual Harassment in the VA and H.R. 1703”, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives:

     And individuals need to be treated with equal human dignity, irregardless of their race, irregardless of their gender.

   • 1998 January, Esther A. Winterfeldt, Margaret L. Bogle, and Lea L. Ebro, Dietetics: Practice & Future Trends, Chapter 11 Summary, Aspen Publishers:

     The dietitian, irregardless of area of practice, must perform management functions such as goal setting, communicating, team building, and managing resources.

   • 1999 March 3, Minutes, Faculty Senate Meeting, University of Texas at Arlington

     "Now," continued Chair Ellwood, "This is irregardless of what it says in the HOP?"

   • 2001, Timothy J. Kent, Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit, page 556, Wayne State University Press:

     During the seventeenth century, a waist sash was worn over the coat, irregardless of the number of buttons that were fastened.

   • 2002 March, Matthew C. Wells Ph.D., Parallelism: A Handbook of Social Analysis, page 88, Xlibris Corporation:

     Irregardless of whether or not a hegemonic war ensues in the future, the conclusions and analysis of these hegemonic wars should not be discounted.

   • 2003 January, Julio Vasquez, Death at Disney, pages 69-70, Lulu Press:

     She pauses to catch a breath. “Collectively, they’ve been in more films than I've seen in my life.” [punctuation sic.]

     “Out of seven,” she continues. [punctuation sic.] “Three have martial arts training, three have dance training, and one has both. The one who has both...probably has the least reason to care about what goes on with the stunt show as he’ll stay working irregardless.”

     “Irregardless, [punctuation sic.] isn’t a word. The word is regardless,” I correct her.

   • 2003 September, Don Harris (editor) Human-Centred Computing: Cognitive, Social and Ergonomic Aspects edited by Don Harris, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 1083:

     They conducted studies that demonstrated the subjects tend to visualize virtual elements as ahead or occluding content, irregardless of the element depth.

   • 2003 November 4, Judge Paez, George Doe, Lacey Doe v. Betsey Warren Lebbos et al., No. 02-16326, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:

     a statement made by Mary Ritter, the physician’s assistant who performed the SART exam on Lacey, regarding her customary practice of performing SART examinations, irregardless of allegations of sexual abuse, on females as young as Lacey

   • 2003 December 22, John Clifford Wallace, Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Circuit Judges, “Jonathan C. Shaw v. Cal Terhune, No. 02-16829, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], FindLaw, archived from the original on 6 August 2018:

     [T]he crime by definition allowed for the prosecution of both defendants irregardless of which defendant physically pulled the trigger.

   • 2004 July, Dr. Steven G. Gray, The Maltreated Child: Finding What Lurks Beneath, page 238, Living Water Press:

     Dealing with all children in the exact same manner — vis-à-vis the matter of discipline, for example — irregardless of her personality make-up, disrespects the child’s unique character imbued to her by God.

   • 2004 July 7, John Harris of the Department of Toxic Substance Control, Restoration Advisory Board Meeting Minutes, Sierra Army Depot:

     We need to see the completion report and sign off on it, that the property actually has been cleared sufficiently before the property can be transferred. All that has to be done irregardless of the date.

   • 2005, Brett St Louis, “Racialization in the ‘Zone of Ambiguity’”, in Karim Murji, John Solomos, editors, Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

     Again following [Walter Garrison] Runciman, whether we agree with the biological race concept or not, its continued formal and informal salience confirms that competing racial understandings exist irregardless of whether they are valid truths or subjective speculations.

   • 2005 April, Martha Albertson Fineman and Terence Dougherty, Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law and Society, Cornell University Press, page 124:

     Such applications are analogous to respect for an owner’s right to exclusive unmitigated use of owned property, irregardless of impact on the collective.

   • 2005 June, Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, page 169:

     In a sense, Mathews has translated his liturgical conception into a language that might be familiar to art historians, many of whom were firmly attached to object-focused diachronic and nonlocalized iconographic and “iconological” interpretation of individual art objects, often irregardless of their liturgical contexts.

   • 2005 October 13, Meeting Minutes, State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee, North Carolina:

     Discussion included the SCFAC budget and the fact that the State cannot change the amount of mileage reimbursement pertaining to transportation costs irregardless of the increase in gasoline prices.

   • 2006 April, John Defrain Ph.D., We Cry Out: Living with Developmental Disabilities, iUniverse:

     Irregardless of what word or words we use to describe a person's physical or mental status, when we use "disability" or another word, we are recognizing that the person has something "wrong" with them.