in respect

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in respect

  1. (obsolete) By comparison, comparatively.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: 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 .

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