All 5 Uses of
revere
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
- You are not to suppose, reader, that Adele has all this time been sitting motionless on the stool at my feet: no; when the ladies entered, she rose, advanced to meet them, made a stately reverence, and said with gravity — "Bon jour, mesdames."†
Chpt 17
- I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in, — with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.†
Chpt 23
- I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.†
Chpt 30
- ...and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.
Chpt 37 *reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
Definition:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear