respecter

[ri-spek-ter]

noun

someone or something that is influenced by the social standing, importance, power, or any deterrent put forth by persons or things (used chiefly in negative constructions): Death is no respecter of wealth.

Origin of respecter

First recorded in 1605–15; respect + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for respecter

Historical Examples of respecter

It is the law of the land—the just, holy, beneficent law, which is no respecter of persons.
The Underdog
F. Hopkinson Smith
And the Reader, who is no respecter of editors, might quarrel with it, for all we know.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
For, as we remarked in discussing the Sophist, the dialectical method is no respecter of persons.
Statesman
Plato
God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
John S. C. Abbott
Where is it declared that God, who is no respecter of persons, is a respecter of multitudes?
America First
Various

British Dictionary definitions for respecter

respecter

noun

a person who respects someone or something
no respecter of persons a person whose attitude and behaviour is uninfluenced by consideration of another's rank, power, wealth, etc

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