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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RESPECTUOUS

RESPECTUOUS Re *spec "tu *ous (r *spk "t *s;135 ), a.

 

1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. [Obs. ] Boyle.

 

2. Respectable. [Obs. ] Knolles.