Respective vs Both - What's the difference?
respective | both |
Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
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(obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
* Archbishop Sandys
(obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
(obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
* 1599 , , IV. iv. 192:
(obsolete) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
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* Lord Burleigh
Each of the two; one and the other.
* (Bible), (w) xxi. 27
* (1678-1751)
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* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between respective and both
is that respective is (obsolete) rendering respect; respectful; regardful while both is (obsolete) each of more than two.As an adjective respective
is relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.As a determiner both is
each of the two; one and the other.As a conjunction both is
including both (used with and).respective
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Adjective
(-)- They returned to their respective places of abode.
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- If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not refuse this charge.
- the respective connections of society
- What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,
- With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.
- With thy equals familiar, yet respective .
Synonyms
* (relating to particular persons or things) corresponding, relevant, specificDerived terms
* respectiveness * irrespectiveboth
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Alternative forms
* bothe (archaic)Determiner
(en determiner)- Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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- Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
- He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.