irrespectively, adv.
(ɪrɪˈspɛktɪvlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an irrespective manner.
† 1. Without showing respect; disrespectfully. Obs.
| 1636 Featly in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxiii. 10 To see the vilest of all creatures..irrespectively hale and tear in pieces the casket which whilome enclosed the richest jewel in the world. |
† 2. In a manner showing disregard of particular persons or circumstances. Obs.
| 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 178 That God, by his sole will and absolute decree, hath irrespectiuely resolued, and ineuitably decreed, some to be saued, some to be damned, from all Eternity. a 1660 Hammond Wks. I. 485 (R.) He is all the while convinced that all the promises..belong to him absolutely and irrespectively. a 1711 Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 104 None doom'd to endless Flame can plead Hell irrespectively decreed. a 1716 South Serm. (1744) VII. xi. 218 Mere undeserved mercy, that places the marks of its favour absolutely and irrespectively upon whom it pleases. |
3. Without regard to or consideration of other things or of († to) something specified; independently.
| 1648 W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. x. §4. 111 The solid meat of vertue, which is the discharge of our duty to God and man, irrespectively to humane praise. a 1716 South Serm. (1744) X. v. 138 Prosperity, considered absolutely and irrespectively, is better and more desirable than adversity. 1842 Miall in Nonconf. II. 1 A conscientious and uncompromising advocacy of truth, quite irrespectively of party convenience. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. (1875) 192 He values them, irrespectively of the practical conveniences which their triumph may obtain for him. 1884 Ld. Coleridge in Law Rep. 13 Queen's Bench Div. 691 The Court could enlarge the time irrespectively of the contract of the parties. |