resp.

American  

abbreviation

1. respective.

2. respectively.

3. respelled; respelling.

4. respondent.

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Example Sentences

In a newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st St."

From Time Magazine Archive

Before g the vowel u resp. w is inserted: 145 browght—nowght.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

Muscular contractions, as induced by strong faradic currents, are to be dreaded in direct proportion to the acuteness of the inflammation, resp. the sensitiveness of the inflamed tissues.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.

Iniqua resp. quae dat parasitis, adulatoribus, inanium voluptatum artificibus generosis et otiosis tanta munera prodigit, at contra agricolis, carbonariis, aurigis, fabris, &c. nihil prospicit, sed eorum abusa labore florentia aetatis fame penset et aerumnis, Mor.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert