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Reverence

noun

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"

A reverent mental attitude. Antonym: irreverence.

An act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy).

verb

(past & past part. reverenced; pres. part. reverencing)

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

... hardship. Like David of old, he had sung them on the mountainside, and they had been as a guide unto his feet, a lamp unto his eyes. He needed no book and no spectacles to enable him to join his note to the strain. Margot looked at him with a thrill of understanding and reverence. A saint of God, a lowly dweller on earth, for whom was waiting one of the "higher" places ...

— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... descriptions of the British sovereign, to be found in Cowell's curious book, entitled "The Interpreter." The reader may further trace the modern genius of Blackstone, with an awful reverence, dignifying the venerable nonsense—and the commentator on Blackstone sometimes labouring to explain the explanations of his master; so obscure, so abstract, and so delicate is the phantom which our ancient lawyers conjured up, and ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... events of the past few days have so unnerved me that I have fallen behind in my diary. I must try to catch up, for what would posterity do should the record of my inspiring career in the service not be faithfully recorded for them to read with reverence and amazement in days ...

— Biltmore Oswald - The Diary of a Hapless Recruit • J. Thorne Smith, Jr.

... questions with a jeer. I am amused by the naivete with which I used in my youth to exaggerate the value of renown and of the exceptional position which celebrities are supposed to enjoy. I am famous, my name is pronounced with reverence, my portrait has been both in the Niva and in the Illustrated News of the World; I have read my biography even in a German magazine. And what of all that? Here I am sitting utterly alone in a strange town, on a strange ...

— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... doth them good, uncle, that men must make courtesy to them and salute them with reverence and stand bareheaded before them, or unto some of them ...

— Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens • Thomas More

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