All 3 Uses of
revere
in
Tender is the Night
- Then abruptly the table broke up—the moment when the guests had been daringly lifted above conviviality into the rarer atmosphere of sentiment, was over before it could be irreverently breathed, before they had half realized it was there.
Chpt 1.7 *irreverently = without proper respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverently means not and reverses the meaning of reverently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- I am motionless against the sky and the boat is made to carry my form onward into the blue obscurity of the future, I am Pallas Athene carved reverently on the front of a galley.†
Chpt 2.10
- She put on the first ankle-length day dress that she had owned for many years, and crossed herself reverently with Chanel Sixteen.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear