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Definition
polite respect — often when submitting to another's wishes
- Pollock was a man of perhaps thirty-eight, slender, still, deferential.Chapter 5 (96% in)
- Nat Hicks was there, and he was not so deferential as he had been.Chapter 31 (91% in)
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