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Reverence   /rˈɛvərəns/   Listen
Reverence

noun
1.
A feeling of profound respect for someone or something.  Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration.  "The Chinese reverence for the dead" , "The French treat food with gentle reverence" , "His respect for the law bordered on veneration"
2.
A reverent mental attitude.  Antonym: irreverence.
3.
An act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy).
verb
(past & past part. reverenced; pres. part. reverencing)
1.
Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.  Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate.  "We venerate genius"





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"Reverence" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment, by all parties as satisfactory; though the archdeacon, in secret conclave, afterward observed that he dwelt more on religion than on the Church, and spoke of the Church of Christ and not of the Church of England. He thanked them for their present of volumes, which all must reverence or respect. ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli
... the love of all religious persons at the beginning of this sacred institution! O what devoutness of prayer! what rivalry in holiness! what strict discipline was observed! what reverence and obedience under the rule of the master showed they in all things! The traces of them that remain until now testify that they were truly holy and perfect men, who fighting so bravely trod the world underfoot. Now a man is counted great if only he be ...
— The Imitation of Christ • Thomas a Kempis
... had to be maintained by charming manners, and respect for power ensured by elevation of tone and sentiment, which checks the indiscreet, and imbues everybody with the spirit of consideration and reverence. ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or AEneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we ...
— The Battle of the Books - and Other Short Pieces • Jonathan Swift
... war, as the period in which the second vial was poured out on the sea, and in which the waters "became as the blood of a dead man, so that every living soul died in the sea," I saw him bend his head in reverence as he remarked, "Prophecy, I find, gives to all our glories but a single verse, and it is a verse of judgment." Uncle Sandy, however, did not urge the peace principles which he had acquired amid scenes of death and ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller


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