Definition of "respected" []

• Describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of respect. (verb)

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• "It’s a good name, Mother, a name respected by everyone except those villagers, who don’t count anyway."
• "The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an organization dedicated to “ensuring that all members” of the Armed Forces have their religious rights respected, is calling on the Pentagon to cancel the controversial speech due to inflammatory remarks Graham has made in the past, like calling Islam a “wicked and evil religion”:"
• "That argument may have been stronger when good new authors could usually take for granted that they would get reviews in respected newspapers."