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Definition

respect or loyalty; or something done to show respect or loyalty

They retired jersey #23 in homage to Michael Jordan.

homage = respect

Members of the community lined the street to pay homage to the fallen soldier.

homage = respect

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Taps" is also played at funerals, a way of paying homage to lost comrades.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

homage = respect or loyalty

As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father's life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

homage = respect or loyalty

I will however pay it so much homage.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
What Italian would refuse him homage?
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
Just let Elesin fulfil his oath and we will retire home and pay homage to our King.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
How they loved dressing up in gold lace and doing homage!
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
The entire line of beasts bowed their heads in homage to the boy.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
You come here to pay homage with your innocent and powerful hearts....
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
True to my homage to the Almighty, I blew on some duck calls and then preached from the Bible.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
There were still nights when Derek would come back home after feeding on another gift from Vivienne or from some other vampire paying him homage.
Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire
Then up jumped a young French doctor with a red mustache and shouted, We're here to cure dying people, not to pay homage to President Carter!
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
And to Maggie such things had not been every-day incidents, but were a new element in her life, and found her keen appetite for homage quite fresh.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
I guess I did the shutdown as an homage to the mission Ares 3 could have been.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
All gods who receive homage are cruel.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Say 'ay' and be the captain of us all: We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, Love thee as our commander and our king.
William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Kessell!" paying homage to the wizard with a fanatical devotion that brought shivers to the human witnesses to the spectacle.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

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