ETYMOLOGY
from respect (n.) + -uous,
originally after French respectueux (showing respect, respectful)
EXAMPLE
“… Howbeit, they are themselves partly the cause that they doe incurre this obscuritie and ignorance: who being of divers and contrarie natures, yet fall into one and the selfesame inconvenience. For some upon a certaine respectuous reverence which they bare unto their Reader and Doctour, or because they would seeme to spare him, are afraid to aske questions, and to be confirmed and resolved in doubts arising from the doctrine which he delivereth: and so give signes by nodding their heads that they approove all, as if they understood everie thing verie well. …”
From: The Philosophie, commonlie called, The Morals
By Plutarch of Chæronea
Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland, 1603
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