different between regard vs suspicion

English

Alternative forms

• regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• Hyphenation: re?gard
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard, reward, guardian, and so on.

Noun

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

1. (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:

     He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.

2. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
   • 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:

     This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]

   • 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:

     These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.

4. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

   He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

Derived terms

• disregard
• in regard
• in regard of
• in regard to
• with regard to

Synonyms

• consideration, onlook, respect

Antonyms

• (concern for another): neglect

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
   • , [Act V, scene iv]:

     Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive) To face toward.
5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:

     Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.

Derived terms

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regarding

Synonyms

• (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
• (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
• (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag

French

Etymology

From Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?/

Noun

regard m (plural regards)

1. look, glance

2. (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
   • 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:

3. manhole

Related terms

• regarder

Further reading

• “regard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• garder, Gérard

Old French

Alternative forms

• regart, resgard, resgart, regarde

Noun

regard m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)

1. look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)

Descendants

• Middle French: regard
  • ? Middle English: regard, regarde
    • English: regard

References

• regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Alternative forms

• suspition (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.?sp?.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

suspicion (countable and uncountable, plural suspicions)

2. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
3. The condition of being suspected.
4. Uncertainty, doubt.

   • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

5. A trace, or slight indication.
   • 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer

     The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion […] of saturnine or sarcastic humor.

6. The imagining of something without evidence.

Derived terms

• suspicious
• suspect
• sneaking suspicion

Translations

Verb

suspicion (third-person singular simple present suspicions, present participle suspicioning, simple past and past participle suspicioned)

1. (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.

   • Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]

   • 2012, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)

     "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “suspicion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem. Confer soupçon, derived from a related formation but not an actual doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.pi.sj??/

Noun

suspicion f (plural suspicions)

1. suspicion

Synonyms

• soupçon