All 9 Uses
revere
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Moby Dick
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- And as for going as cook,—though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;—though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.†
Chpt 1-3reverentially = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.†
Chpt 7-9
- As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate, Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.†
Chpt 16-18irreverence = a lack of respectstandard 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.
- Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman, and endued with a deep natural reverence, the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline him to superstition; but to that sort of superstition, which in some organizations seems rather to spring, somehow, from intelligence than from ignorance.†
Chpt 25-27reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways...
Chpt 25-27 *reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it.†
Chpt 40-42reverenced = respected
- Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.†
Chpt 40-42reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- For it was set apart and sanctified to one awe-striking end; and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.†
Chpt 97-99revered = deeply respected and admired
- To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.†
Chpt 118-120reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
Definitions:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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(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.