Both Uses of
deference
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Pollock was a man of perhaps thirty-eight, slender, still, deferential.†
Chpt 5 *deferential = politely respectful
- Nat Hicks was there, and he was not so deferential as he had been.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes