All 5 Uses of
revere
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.†
p. 34.9reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.†
p. 37.5reverential = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.†
p. 69.6reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence,
p. 110.8 *reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration
- I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them).†
p. 124.9reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
Definitions:
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(1)
(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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(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.