Both Uses of
deference
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- 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 *
Definition:
polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes