Meanings
nounby-respect (plural by-respects)
plural by-respects
- obsoleteself-interest
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
c. 1692, John Dryden, Discourse on Satire
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