A man described as "a prominent member of the church, a man of great respectability and much employed in public business."
This gave him fame and great respectability.
Further, the growth of hereditarian views in science supported eugenic proposals; psychiatry's desire for greater respectability in the medical profession made eugenic "science" attractive.
But after decades of research by others, the work has been recognized and accorded greater scientific respectability.
In essence, your marriage was arranged to lever your family into greater respectability, and to provide the Melisseni-discreetly, of course-a financial rescue.
During that decade, Moore helped to bring about greater social respectability for the medium in the United States and United Kingdom.
And now it has a business ally who may help it win even greater respectability: Rudolph W. Giuliani.
This service was described in the first advertisements as being "upon the Parisian mode" and that "a person of great respectability attended his vehicle as Conductor".
The character he uniformly sustained, was that of pure morals, a strong and cultivated understanding, great respectability, and dignity of deportment, and extensive influence.
Similarly, the upraised finger--the "up yours" gesture--appears to be gaining greater respectability and currency than it once had.