by-respect

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by-respect (plural by-respects)

  1. (obsolete) self-interest
    • c. 1692, John Dryden, Discourse on Satire:
      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

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