All 3 Uses of
deference
in
A Room of One's Own
- The whole structure, therefore, of the early nineteenth-century novel was raised, if one was a woman, by a mind which was slightly pulled from the straight, and made to alter its clear vision in deference to external authority.†
Chpt 4deference = polite respect
- She had altered her values in deference to the opinion of others.
Chpt 4 *
- But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes