All 7 Uses of
revere
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
- We entomb contaminated waste with a sense of reverence and dread.†
reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Brian did a reverent tour, examining autographed bats ranked on custom wall fittings, game bats beautifully grained, some with pine tar on the choke.†
reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- I have to be reverent when I mention his name.
*reverent = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- Or is it one of those things where we have to be reverent because we're in the presence of greatness but we're really all sitting there determined to be the first ones out the door so we can get a taxi.†
reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- And Chuckie thought of the Ballad of Louis Bakey, a tale the bombardier never tired of telling and the navigator never wanted to come to an end because it was like a great Negro spiritual that makes your whole face tingle with reverence and awe.†
reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Albert, who shunned any form of organized worship and thought God was a mass delusion, sat and watched her for hours, combed her hair, soaked up her diarrhea with bunched Kleenex, talked to her in his boyhood Italian, and he felt that the house, the flat, was suffused with a reverence, old, sad, heavy and impressive—an otherworldliness, now that she was here.†
- Maybe we feel a reverence for waste, for the redemptive qualities of the things we use and discard.†
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.