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A steady look, a gaze.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 750:
One's concern for another; esteem.
* 1842 , Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review , page 144:
* 1903 , Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report , page 186:
* 1989 , Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life , Cambridge University Press, page 399:
(obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
To look at; to observe.
To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
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(archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
* Shakespeare
To face toward.
* Sandys
* John Evelyn
To have to do with, to concern.
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The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a noun regard
is a steady look, a gaze.As a verb regard
is (obsolete) to set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.regard
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) reguard, reguarde, from early (etyl) regard, from , from (etyl) reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard'', ''reward .Noun
(en noun)- He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard , and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
- 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 [...].
- These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard .
Derived terms
* disregard * in regard * regardableEtymology 2
From (etyl) regarder, from (etyl) reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.Verb
(en verb)- There was a Judge in a certaine cite, which feared not god nether regarded man.
- She regarded us warily.
- I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
- He regards honesty as a duty.
- Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
- His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
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- If much you note him, / You offend him; feed, and regard him not.
- It is a peninsula, which regardeth the main land.
- that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke, on the ascent of a hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river
- That argument does not regard the question.