All 12 Uses of
revere
in
To the Lighthouse
- Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally for an attitude towards herself which no woman could fail to feel or to find agreeable, something trustful, childlike, reverential; which an old woman could take from a young man without loss of dignity, and woe betide the girl—pray Heaven it was none of her daughters!†
Part 1reverential = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- There was nobody whom she reverenced as she reverenced him.†
Part 1 *reverenced = respected
- There was nobody whom she reverenced as she reverenced him.†
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- There was nobody she reverenced more.†
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- But having thrown away, when he dismounted, all gestures and fripperies, all trophies of nuts and roses, and shrunk so that not only fame but even his own name was forgotten by him, kept even in that desolation a vigilance which spared no phantom and luxuriated in no vision, and it was in this guise that he inspired in William Bankes (intermittently) and in Charles Tansley (obsequiously)and in his wife now, when she looked up and saw him standing at the edge of the lawn, profoundly, reverence, and pity, and gratitude too, as a stake driven into the bed of a channel upon which the gulls perch and the waves beat inspires in merry boat-loads a feeling of gratitude for the duty it is taking upon†
Part 1reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- She took shelter from the reverence which covered all women; she felt herself praised.†
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- Mother and child then—objects of universal veneration, and in this case the mother was famous for her beauty—might be reduced, he pondered, to a purple shadow without irreverence.†
Part 1irreverence = a lack of respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- There were other senses too in which one might reverence them.†
Part 1reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- A mother and child might be reduced to a shadow without irreverence.†
Part 1irreverence = a lack of respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- All his love, all his reverence, had returned; and she knew it.†
Part 1reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Of all human qualities she reverenced justice most.†
Part 3reverenced = respected
- But William, she remembered, had listened to her with his wise child's eyes when she explained how it was not irreverence: how a light there needed a shadow there and so on.†
Part 3irreverence = a lack of respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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) 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.