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respect or loyalty; or something done to show respect or loyalty- They retired jersey #23 in homage to Michael Jordan.
homage = to show respect for
- Members of the community lined the street to pay homage to the fallen soldier.
- 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
- 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
- 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
homage = respect and loyalty
homage = respect or loyalty
homage = respect or loyalty