All 4 Uses
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A Room With A View
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- There are still left some men who can reverence woman.†
Chpt 7reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Lucy was standing flowerlike by the water, he rushed up and took her in his arms; she rebuked him, permitted him and revered him ever after for his manliness.†
Chpt 9revered = deeply respected and admired
- For he believed that women revere men for their manliness.
Chpt 9 *revere = deeply respect and admire
- He answered reverently: "I may have said that in the past.†
Chpt 17reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
Definitions:
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(1)
(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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(2)
(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.