Definition of "regard"

He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750

This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]

1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144

We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […]

1903, Kentucky Mines, Minerals Dept, Annual Report, page 186

These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.

1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399

Dolph. For the Dolphin, I stand here for him: what to him from England? Exe. Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not mis-become The mightie Sender, doth he prize you at.

1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv], page 77, column 1

And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent.

1905, [Edward Plunkett,] Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna‎, London: Elkin Mathews, […]

Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness, which, in spite of their admiration of his writings, was not unmixed with contempt.

1857, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in Biographical and Historical Sketches, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 49

For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎

If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 1

I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.

1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation.

1615, George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An. Dom. 1610, London: Andrew Crooke, published 1637, page 16

We pass’d by […] that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on ye ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, ye mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq.

1654 June 9, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Memoirs, new edition, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, pages 70–1

My lords, the question thus proposed by your lordships to the Judges must be admitted by all persons to be a question of great importance, as it regards the administration of justice.

1821, edited by Curson Hansard, The parliamentary debates, Volume 3, page 809

Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Luke xviij:]

Suppoſe they be in number infinit,Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles:And more regarding gaine than victorie: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throatsAnd make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)