respectfully vs respectively
Definitions
adverb
- in a respectful manner
Examples
Teachers or students so exempted may remain in the classroom and sit or stand respectfully while others participate in the ceremony.
Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques.
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were.
Definitions
adverb
- in the order given
Examples
A battery is connected to the anode and cathode via leads A and C respectively.
He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated.
These positions are frequently referred to respectively as objectivism and constructionism.
