in respect

English

Prepositional phrase

(obsolete) By comparison, comparatively.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
  , vol.1, New York, 2001, p.388:
  they […] still think their melancholy to be most grievous, none so bad as they are, though it be nothing in respect […].

Derived terms

in respect of

Anagrams

'prentices, inspecter, prentices, prescient, reinspect

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