regard

[Re*gard·]

When you give someone a good, long look, you regard them. It can also mean "to believe," as in "I regard her as my best friend."

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

Noun
a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

Noun
paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"

Noun
(usually preceded by `in'') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect"

Noun
an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him"

Noun
(usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone''s welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes"

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Noun
a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect"

Noun
the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard"

Verb
deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don''t see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

Verb
look at attentively

Verb
connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"

v. t.
To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

v. t.
Hence, to look or front toward; to face.

v. t.
To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.

v. t.
To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.

v. t.
To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.

v. t.
To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.

v. t.
To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition.

v. t.
To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.

v. i.
To look attentively; to consider; to notice.

v. t.
A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

v. t.
Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice.

v. t.
That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.

v. t.
State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account.

v. t.
Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.

v. t.
Matter for consideration; account; condition.

v. t.
Respect; relation; reference.

v. t.
Object of sight; scene; view; aspect.

v. t.
Supervision; inspection.

Regard

Re*gard" (r?*g?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Regarding.] [F. regarder; pref. re- re + garder to guard, heed, keep. See Guard, and cf. Reward.] 1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.

2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.]

It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland.

That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assent of a hill, flanked with wood and regarding the river.

3. To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.

If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not.

4. To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy. 5. To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.

His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.

6. To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.

He that regardeth thae day, regardeth it into the LOrd.

Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king.

7. To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition. "Nether regarding that she is my child, nor fearing me as if II were her father." Shak. 8. To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that. Syn. -- To consider; observe; remark; heed; mind; respect; esteem; estimate; value. See Attend.

Regard

Re*gard" (r?*g?rd"), v. i. To look attentively; to consider; to notice. [Obs.] Shak.

Regard

Re*gard", n. [F. regard See Regard, v. t.] 1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled.

2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice.

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard.

3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.

He has rendered himself worthy of their most favorable regards.

Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference.

4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account.

A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth or power.

5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.

Sad pause and deep regard become the sage.

6. Matter for conssideration; account; condition. [Obs.] "Reason full of good regard." Shak. 7. Respect; relation; reference.

Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God.

&hand; The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in regard to. G. P. Marsh.

Change was thought necessary in regard of the injury the church did receive by a number of things then in use.

In regard of its security, it had a great advantage over the bandboxes.

8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.]

Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the a'89rial blue An indistinct regard.

9. (O.Eng.Law) Supervision; inspection. At regard of, in consideration of; in comparison with. [Obs.] "Bodily penance is but short and little at regard of the pains of hell." Chaucer. -- Court of regard, a forest court formerly held in England every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also survey of dogs. Blackstone. Syn. -- Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care; concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

To look attentively; to consider; to notice.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

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Usage Examples

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

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Other Usage Examples

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.