Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to despect
Participle: despected
Gerund: despecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | despect |
| you | despect |
| he;she;it | despects |
| we | despect |
| you | despect |
| they | despect |
Perfect
| I | have despected |
| you | have despected |
| he;she;it | has despected |
| we | have despected |
| you | have despected |
| they | have despected |
Past
| I | despected |
| you | despected |
| he;she;it | despected |
| we | despected |
| you | despected |
| they | despected |
Pluperfect
| I | had despected |
| you | had despected |
| he;she;it | had despected |
| we | had despected |
| you | had despected |
| they | had despected |
Future
| I | will despect |
| you | will despect |
| he;she;it | will despect |
| we | will despect |
| you | will despect |
| they | will despect |
Future Perfect
| I | will have despected |
| you | will have despected |
| he;she;it | will have despected |
| we | will have despected |
| you | will have despected |
| they | will have despected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | despect |
| you | despect |
| he;she;it | despect |
| we | despect |
| you | despect |
| they | despect |
Perfect
| I | have despected |
| you | have despected |
| he;she;it | have despected |
| we | have despected |
| you | have despected |
| they | have despected |
Imperfect
| I | despected |
| you | despected |
| he;she;it | despected |
| we | despected |
| you | despected |
| they | despected |
Pluperfect
| I | had despected |
| you | had despected |
| he;she;it | had despected |
| we | had despected |
| you | had despected |
| they | had despected |
Conditional
Present
| I | would despect |
| you | would despect |
| he;she;it | would despect |
| we | would despect |
| you | would despect |
| they | would despect |
Perfect
| I | would have despected |
| you | would have despected |
| he;she;it | would have despected |
| we | would have despected |
| you | would have despected |
| they | would have despected |
Imperative
| you | despect |
| we | Let's despect |
| you | despect |
Verbs conjugated like 'despect'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'despect'
respect,
aspect,
defect,
deflect,
deject,
depict,
deselect,
desert,
despeed,
despend,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English despect (“contempt, spite”), from Latin dēspectus (“a looking down upon, contempt”), from dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + specere (“to look at, behold”), equivalent to de- + -spect.
Sample Sentences
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[Act II, scene ii, page 72] Nay, but with patience, Sir, we that are Officers / Muſt 'quire the ſpeciall markes, and all the tokens / Of the deſpected parties, or perhaps – elſe, / Be nere the nere of our purpoſe in 'prehending 'hem.
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[Act III, scene i, page 79] Faith Goſſip Turfe, you have, you ſay, Remiſſion / To comprehend all ſuch, as are diſpected: / Now, would I make another privie ſearch / Through this Towne, and then you have zearch'd two towns. [c. 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy Composed by Ben: Iohnson. … London, Printed M.DC.XL [1640], in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. Containing these Playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse, volume II, London: Printed for Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 221338962, pages 72 and 79]
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The holy Logos, condeſcending to aſſume the fleſh, voluntarily ſo diveſted himſelf of all apparent dignity, that he was therein conſidered as a meer man, incomparably inferior to, and distinct from, the prieſt offering him; and hence the features of correlation in them became indeed ſo effaced, that the Logos ſingly and of himſelf was deſpected for an abject and forlorn ſinner, devoted to wretchedneſs as an offender, lying under the curſe and condemnation divine juſtice, and deſerving its vengeance for guilt by tranſgreſſion and iniquity. [1790, [anonymous; attributed to James Stonhouse], “[The Spirit of Jesus Christ the Melchisedecal Priest, evinced from […]] A View of the priestly office”, in Apostolical Conceptions of God, Being the Second Part of an Antecedent Publication, and is More Especially Addressed to the Favourers of the Arian and Socinian Persuasions, Bristol: Printed for the Author; And sold by G. Herdsfield, Aldersgate-Bars, London; and T. Mills, Wine-Street, Bristol, →OCLC, pages 76–77:]
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[…] wears, like our little friend of Karta-pu, an eared baby-bunting bonnet, sewn and embroidered to represent the mask of a tiger if looked down on from above; so that the jealous gods, despecting, see a beast and not a baby, and pass it by accordingly. [1917, Reginald [John] Farrer, On the Eaves of the World, volume II, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 68:]