Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A consideration or thought aside from the main one; hence, a private end or purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Private end or view; by-interest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Private end or view; by-interest.
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Examples
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Tis likely that some such by-respect moved him to this opinion, since the arguments he urges for it are confest by his zealous followers and commentators, to be very sleight and frivolous, and they themselves grant, what I am now to prove, that there is not any evidence in the light of naturall reason, which can sufficiently manifest that there is but one world.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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i. 28, -- not swayed with any by-respect whatever.
Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967
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