The phrase "a form of respect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different ways or expressions that demonstrate respect towards someone or something.
Example: "Addressing your elders with courtesy is a form of respect that is valued in many cultures."
Alternatives: "a sign of respect" or "an expression of respect".
He liked that because it was a form of respect he didn't get in his own country".
He sought to persuade by explaining and reasoning, not by simplifying or dramatizing — a form of respect that the citizenry didn't always deserve.
He jokes he had to get the equivalent of a PhD in Harlem before daring to open a business here – a form of respect and a way of paying homage, before looking to the future.
Because he was the world's greatest modern architect, or so the French now call him as a form of respect, his death was treated as a major Paris news event -complimentary treatment such as he had not received during his life in Paris.
"Everyone called me Miss Lilly, which I took as a form of respect".
Politeness is crucial in communication (and therefore in collaboration) as people tend to perceive linguistic markers of politeness as a form of respect and their use related to the power dynamics of social interaction.
However, other philosophers treat "esteem" and (appraisal) "respect" as synonyms, and Darwall (2004) calls appraisal respect a form of esteem.
Appraisal respect is a form of valuing respect, but recognition respect includes both valuing and non-valuing forms.
Neither reverentia for the moral law nor the felt experience of reverential respect for the sublimity of persons as such (Buss 1999) are forms of appraisal respect, yet because recognition respect is analyzed, first, as holding only in deliberative contexts, and second, as not essentially involving feeling, reverentia seems also not to be a form of recognition respect.
However, we clearly cannot apply all kinds of respect to ourselves: it makes no sense to talk of directive respect for oneself, for instance, and although one might regard oneself or some of one's characteristics as obstacles ("I'm my own worst enemy"), this would not generally be considered a form of self-respect.
Young people may not understand that it once was a traditional form of respect for all, she suggested.
