All 5 Uses of
revere
in
King Lear
- ] 'This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them.†
Scene 1.2
- You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
Scene 2.2 *reverence = respect
- — You stubborn ancient knave, you reverent braggart, We'll teach you,— Kent.†
Scene 2.2
- A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.†
Scene 4.2
- Restoration hang Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss Repair those violent harms that my two sisters Have in thy reverence made!†
Scene 4.7
Definition:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear