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Respect's formal cousin — shows up in letters and insults wearing the same suit.
means To look at, consider, or hold someone or something in a particular esteem — the polite, somewhat distant cousin of 'care about.'
from From French regarder, 'to look at,' built from re- (back, again) plus garder (to watch, to keep, related to 'guard'). So at its root, regard just means to keep looking — to watch something closely enough that your gaze becomes a kind of judgment. Esteem is just a look that lingered.
- plural form
- regards turns respect into a goodbye
- etymology
- from french regarder, literally to look back
- backhanded use
- held in low regard still sounds polite
- legal phrase
- in regard to means lawyers avoided saying about