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revere
in
The Scarlet Letter
(Edited)

It had been her habit, from an almost immemorial date, to go about the country as a kind of voluntary nurse, and doing whatever miscellaneous good she might; taking upon herself, likewise, to give advice in all matters, especially those of the heart, by which means—as a person of such propensities inevitably must—she gained from many people the reverence due to an angel, but, I should imagine, was looked upon by others as an intruder and a nuisance.
p. 32.1

reverence = deep respect and admiration
With his own ghostly voice he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him—who might reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor—to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public.
p. 33.1

reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
When such personages could constitute a part of the spectacle, without risking the majesty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.
p. 54.3

reverence = respect and admiration
It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.
p. 81.2

irreverent = disrespectful

standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverent means not and reverses the meaning of reverent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.
p. 81.3

reverence = respect and admiration
O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?
p. 81.8

revere = deeply respect and admire
Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time.
p. 114.1

reverential = feelings of deep respect and admiration
Doomed by his own choice, therefore, as Mr. Dimmesdale so evidently was, to eat his unsavoury morsel always at another's board, and endure the life-long chill which must be his lot who seeks to warm himself only at another's fireside, it truly seemed that this sagacious, experienced, benevolent old physician, with his concord of paternal and reverential love for the young pastor, was the very man, of all mankind, to be constantly within reach of his voice.
p. 116.3

reverential = full of deep respect and admiration
She now skipped irreverently from one grave to another; until coming to the broad, flat, armorial tombstone of a departed worthy—perhaps of Isaac Johnson himself—she began to dance upon it.
p. 123.6

irreverently = with a lack of respect or seriousness

standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverently means not and reverses the meaning of reverently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
"There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.
p. 123.9

reverence = respect and admiration
…I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children—I, who have breathed the parting prayer over your dying friends, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted—I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!
p. 133.3

reverence = deeply respect and admire
They heard it all, and did but reverence him the more.
p. 133.7
Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.
p. 146.4

reverence = a respectful form of address for a Christian minister
"And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves henceforward," remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling.
p. 146.7
But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? a great red letter in the sky—the letter A, which we interpret to stand for Angel.
p. 146.8
But now the idea came strongly into Hester's mind, that Pearl, with her remarkable precocity and acuteness, might already have approached the age when she could have been made a friend, and intrusted with as much of her mother's sorrows as could be imparted, without irreverence either to the parent or the child.
p. 166.7

irreverence = lack of respect

standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
"The people reverence thee," said Hester.
p. 178.1

reverence = deeply respect and admire
And as for the people's reverence, would that it were turned to scorn and hatred!
p. 178.3

reverence = deep respect and admiration
For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
p. 186.7

reverence = respect and admiration
The people possessed by hereditary right the quality of reverence, which, in their descendants, if it survive at all, exists in smaller proportion, and with a vastly diminished force in the selection and estimate of public men.
p. 221.6
In that old day the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence was strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age—on long-tried integrity—on solid wisdom and sad-coloured experience—on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gave the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability.
p. 221.8
"No matter, darling!" responded Mistress Hibbins, making Pearl a profound reverence.
p. 226.1

reverence = respect
What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both!
p. 230.9 *

irreverent = disrespectful

standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverent means not and reverses the meaning of reverent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
Once more, therefore, the train of venerable and majestic fathers were seen moving through a broad pathway of the people, who drew back reverently, on either side, as the Governor and magistrates, the old and wise men, the holy ministers, and all that were eminent and renowned, advanced into the midst of them.
p. 233.1

reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
But it were irreverent to describe that revelation.
p. 238.1

irreverent = disrespectful

standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverent means not and reverses the meaning of reverent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
It may be, that, when we forgot our God—when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul—it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.
p. 239.3

reverence = respect and admiration
the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels
p. 241.4

reverence = deep respect and admiration
But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester's life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.
p. 245.1

reverence = respect and admiration

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(1) (revere)
regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
- Your reverence is a title that can be used to address royalty or clergy.
- Irreverent is the opposite of reverent and in addition to meaning "without respect" can sometimes imply a comic attitude.

revere in The Scarlet Letter (Edited)

revere
in
The Scarlet Letter
(Edited)