All 4 Uses
respective
in
The House of the Seven Gables
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- Phoebe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.†
Chpt 5 *respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- And if the observer chanced to be ill-natured, as well as acute and susceptible, he would probably suspect that the smile on the gentleman's face was a good deal akin to the shine on his boots, and that each must have cost him and his boot-black, respectively, a good deal of hard labor to bring out and preserve them.†
Chpt 8respectively = separately in the specified order
- For the gaunt, bony frame and limbs of Hepzibah, as compared with the tiny lightsomeness of Phoebe's figure, were perhaps in some fit proportion with the moral weight and substance, respectively, of the woman and the girl.†
Chpt 9
- Both, it is true, were characters proper to New England life, and possessing a common ground, therefore, in their more external developments; but as unlike, in their respective interiors, as if their native climes had been at world-wide distance.†
Chpt 12respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
Definitions:
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(respective) relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)