Regards
[ri'ga:dz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Commendations, compliments, respects.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compliments, respects, commendations
Editor: Maynard
Examples
- When a man is in love, said Crispin intensively, it is no use reasoning with him; and, as regards Helena, I quite approve of all you say. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was not in the least doubtful of himself, as regards Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the objective man, in Nietzsche's opinion, distrusts his own personality and regards it as some thing to be set aside as accidental, and a detriment to calm judgment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Miss Fanshawe there regards you as a second Diogenes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As regards loss due to resistance, there is a well-known law for determining it, based on Ohm's law. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He has no hand free, to wave to me; I dare not call to him; he regards me like a dead man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Why do I care what he thinks, beyond the mere loss of his good opinion as regards my telling the truth or not? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There is a section among the socialists which regards the class movement of labor as a driving force in the socialization of industry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And treat your women well, for they are with you as captives and prisoners; they have not power over anything as regards themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My mother desires her very best compliments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There has been considerable difference of opinion as regards the comparative efficiency of chain drive and belt drive. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He stood for a moment and looked at her, powerless and torn with pity, as a parent regards an infant in pain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The type of statesman we must oppose to the routineer is one who regards all social organization as an instrument. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Harry De Roos, as he followed his cousin, begged us to pity him, and convey his tender regards to Sophia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is largely due to the Patent Law, which justly regards the inventor as a public benefactor, and seeks to make for him some protection in the enjoyment of his rights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To my task, she continued mentally, my guests must not perceive the reality, either as it regards him or me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Edison's second electric railroad of 1882 was more pretentious as regards length, construction, and equipment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Love--best love--kindest regards--unalterable affection. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Surely it is final as regards the man's death. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The idea here supplies the place of an impression, and is entirely the same, so far as regards our present purpose. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No one regards the external similarity of a mouse to a shrew, of a dugong to a whale, of a whale to a fish, as of any importance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Relatively few cities and towns are so favorably situated as regards water; more often the mountains are too distant, or the elevation is too slight, to be of practical value. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I mean as regards Eunice, explained Maurice quickly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This principle and its application in practice were quite correct as regards chemical batteries, but not as regards dynamo machines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Maynard