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Definition
regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration — sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them;Chapter 18 (2% in)
reveres = respects and admires
- Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor, Henry T., doesn't even call it a 'Tux.Chapter 1 (89% in)
- As Babbitt stared, the nervousness was soothed from his face, his slack chin lifted in reverence.Chapter 1 (98% in)
- He imagined their eyes meeting with terrifying recognition; imagined touching her lips with frightened reverence and—She was chirping, "Any more, Mist' Babbitt?"Chapter 3 (97% in)
- Now I guess the folks in this man's town will quit listening to all this kyoodling from behind the fence; I guess you'll quit listening to the guys that pan and roast and kick and beef, and vomit out filthy atheism; and all of you 'll come in, with every grain of pep and reverence you got, and boost all together for Jesus Christ and his everlasting mercy and tenderness!"Chapter 7 (76% in)
- That's the Shelling-Horton Steel Plant, and they tell me old John Shelling made a good three million bones out of munitions during the war!" the man with the velour hat said reverently.Chapter 10 (82% in)
- He murmured reverently, "I guess some of the folks on Floral Heights will sit up and take notice now, and pay a little attention to old Georgie!"Chapter 13 (56% in)
- Of a decent man in Zenith it was required that he should belong to one, preferably two or three, of the innumerous "lodges" and prosperity-boosting lunch-clubs; to the Rotarians, the Kiwanis, or the Boosters; to the Oddfellows, Moose, Masons, Red Men, Woodmen, Owls, Eagles, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, and other secret orders characterized by a high degree of heartiness, sound morals, and reverence for the Constitution.Chapter 16 (4% in)
- If Babbitt was envious of the Smart Set of the McKelveys, before William Washington Eathorne he was reverent.Chapter 16 (40% in)
- But with all reverence.Chapter 16 (96% in)
- Its marble steps are scrubbed daily, the brass plate is reverently polished, and the lace curtains are as prim and superior as William Washington Eathorne himself.Chapter 17 (9% in)
- Forty barbers and nine manicure girls worked desperately, and at the door six colored porters lurked to greet the customers, to care reverently for their hats and collars, to lead them to a place of waiting where, on a carpet like a tropic isle in the stretch of white stone floor, were a dozen leather chairs and a table heaped with magazines.Chapter 24 (40% in)
- The subscription is but ten dollars a year, and for this mere pittance the members receive not only the monthly magazine, Pearls of Healing, but the privilege of sending right to the president, our revered Mother Dobbs, any questions regarding spiritual progress, matrimonial problems, health and well-being questions, financial difficulties, and—Chapter 30 (83% in)
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