All 4 Uses of
revere
in
Of Human Bondage
- Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world.†
Chpt 67-68reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world.†
Chpt 67-68
- Philip felt that the inhabitants of that city would have seen the apparition without astonishment, reverent and thankful, and have gone their ways.†
Chpt 87-88reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- The falls of Schaffhausen made him 'offer reverent thanks to the all-powerful Creator of the universe, whose works were wondrous and beautiful,'
Chpt 111-112 *reverent = with wonder and awe
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.