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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A consideration or thought aside from the main one; hence, a private end or purpose.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Private end or view; by-interest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Private end or view; by-interest.
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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.”
“i. 28, -- not swayed with any by-respect whatever.”
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