Usually means: Lack of respect or esteem.
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  1. despect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. despect: Wordnik
  3. despect: Wiktionary
  4. Despect: Dictionary.com
  5. Despect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. despect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Despect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. despect: Free Dictionary
  9. Despect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (despect)

noun:  (archaic) Contempt, derision.
verb:  (archaic) To hold in contempt, to despise, to look down on, to scorn.

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