Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without regard to, or not taking into account, other matters or considerations: with of, formerly with to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Without regard to conditions; not taking circumstances into consideration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
irrespective manner. - adverb Without regard to conditions; not making circumstances into consideration.
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Examples
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Most of the organized opposition came from the merchants, so the comparison to current events is quite absurd, irrespectively of the validity of the tea-bagger complaints.
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(Though, irrespectively, it makes me wonder what if their serie were written by the other writer ...)
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(Though, irrespectively, it makes me wonder what if their serie were written by the other writer ...)
September 2009 2009
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In future a police or military force should be 'created by nations big or small, irrespectively, by equally balanced forces.
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In future a police or military force should be 'created by nations big or small, irrespectively, by equally balanced forces.
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Most of the organized opposition came from the merchants, so the comparison to current events is quite absurd, irrespectively of the validity of the tea-bagger complaints.
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In the case above, the DRM in DVDs (CSS/Macrovision), prevents any and all copying of any piece of video on a DVD irrespectively of any other considerations.
Bits Debate: Mixing It Up Over Remixes and Fair Use - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And yet as another aside, why use “em” and “strong” instead of “b” and “i” irrespectively?
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And yet as another aside, why use “em” and “strong” instead of “b” and “i” irrespectively?
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The blog is important enough that it is read by people irrespectively of their political affiliation.
hernesheir commented on the word irrespectively
Century Dictionary states that this adverb takes the prepositions "to" and "of". The query "irrespectively to" in Google Books returned 733 older instances of this pairing; "irrespectively of" yielded over 64,000 more recent examples.
April 25, 2011