All 3 Uses of
homage
in
Jane Eyre
- I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.†
Chpt 12
- I will suffer no competitor near the throne; I shall exact an undivided homage: his devotions shall not be shared between me and the shape he sees in his mirror.†
Chpt 17 *
- I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace — for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(homage) respect or loyalty; or something done to show respect or loyalty