disrespector

English

Etymology

From disrespect +‎ -or.

Noun

disrespector (plural disrespectors)

1. Alternative form of disrespecter.
   • 1749, William Grimshaw, An Answer to a Sermon Lately Published Against the Methodists, by the Rev. Mr George White, M. A. Minister of Colne and Marsden, in Lancashire, page 50:

     However theſe Methodiſt Preachers ‘are […] Profeſs’d Diſreſpectors of Learning and Education, cauſing a viſible Ruin of your Trade and Manufacture, […].’

   • 1836 March 5, “Sabbath Breakers”, in Joshua Leavitt, editor, The New-York Evangelist, volume VII, number 10 (whole 310), New York, N.Y.: S[eth] W[illiston] Benedict & Co., page 40, column 5:

     They give liberally for benevolent objects, in short, we know nothing against them but this one act of Sabbath breaking, which we believe is tending to overturn the good order of society, by corrupting the morals of men, and making them disrespectors of the laws of God and men, and in this way bringing down the just judgments of God on our land.

   • 1917 July 16, “Where Do They Get It?”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume L, number 31, Atlanta, Ga., page four, column 2:

     The question the decent, law-respecting citizens of Georgia would like to have answered is, where do these disrespectors and violators of the law get their liquor?

   • 1995, Thomas Adcock, Devil’s Heaven: A Neil Hockaday Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 301:

     The chauffeur in blues had rested the slow-moving red flasher atop the roof, no doubt thinking this would ward off any and all disrespectors of New York’s finest.