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English
Adjective
respectuous (comparative more respectuous, superlative most respectuous)
- (obsolete) respectful
1648, Robert Boyle, letter to Mr. Jones:I thought it pardonabler to say nothing by a respectuous silence
- (obsolete) respectable
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, , London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:a great man, more amorous of her person than reſpectuous of her honour
References
“respectuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.