Both Uses
deference
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Scudder [quietly, deferentially]: Hatcher, Dan Hatcher, is the assistant manager of the Royal Palms Hotel, and the man that informed me this morning that Chance Wayne was back in St Cloud.†
Scene 2.1deferentially = with polite respect
- comes deferentially
Scene 2.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(deference) polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)