The phrase "elicit respect" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to inspire or bring about a feeling of respect from someone else. Example: The politician's actions and words continue to elicit respect from the community, earning her a strong following of loyal supporters.
This self-educated historian, not attached to any university, wants to be both a provocateur and someone who elicits respect.
Where Rex boasted (and then failed to deliver), Bowles is measured, down to earth, realistic and always elicits respect (no one will ever describe him as a buffoon).
But even more importantly, I realized that our treating our clients as the adults that they are (albeit ones currently facing serious challenges) rather than infantilizing or otherwise treating them as damaged goods, not only elicits respect from them, but also gives it to them as well.
Next time, she'd be better off dwelling on characters whose preoccupations elicit more respect.
He wrote, "She did not inspire love, or affection, or even warm friendship, but she did elicit interest, respect, admiration, and enthusiasm".
Overshadowed by Egypt's pharaonic and medieval Islamic heritage, and the more recent upsurge in interest in contemporary Arab art, the country's modernist artists elicit scant respect.
Perhaps the first country to develop a comprehensive and modernly efficient scheme of military education was Prussia, which had such early brilliant reformers as Gerhard von Scharnhorst, August von Gneisenau, and Carl von Clausewitz and whose complex of military institutions in the 19th century would elicit the respect (and often the imitation) of other military powers.
"There are few voices in the modern media which elicit such respect and attention.
