hold in respect

Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?

This was in order to grant them forgiveness together with the warning that in the future they should hold in respect the troops and the Fathers.

He could not hold in respect the man who, it seemed to him, had betrayed his friends.

Jesuits recognize only one creed, Freemasons hold in respect all honest convictions.

This passage is interesting partly as an instance of Florentine spite against Siena, partly as showing that in Italy great munificence was expected from the carpet-knights who had not won their spurs with toil, and partly as proving how the German Emperors, on their parade expeditions through Italy, debased the institutions they were bound to hold in respect.