respecter
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.
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How to use respecter in a sentence
Conventional, polite, considerate, and a great respecter of persons in authority was the Chinese sage.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordMammy Gobo was no respecter of persons, and I was glad to find that she attended on Tom with as much care as she had done on me.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. KingstonA democracy is no respecter of persons and can, under its dogma of equality before the law, admit of no exceptions.
The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean MartinThe men feared him, for he was strict and was no respecter of persons; but they loved him too, for he was always just.
Servants of the Guns | Jeffery E. JefferyThis truth is an integral part of the cosmos, from which there is no appeal; no reprieve; no immunity, no "respecter of persons."
Sex=The Unknown Quantity | Ali Nomad
British Dictionary definitions for respecter
/ (rɪˈspɛktə) /
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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