Both Uses of
revere
in
This Side of Paradise
- and through the shell of his undergraduate consciousness had broken a deep and reverent devotion to the gray walls and Gothic peaks and all they symbolized as warehouses of dead ages.
Chpt 1.2 *reverent = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- "Take a stick" answered Alec, with ponderous reverence, "one about the length of a broom-handle.†
Chpt 1.4
Definition:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear