Both Uses
revere
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Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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- He began to think of the people in the town where he had always lived with something like reverence.†
Chpt 21 *reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- He had reverence for Helen.†
Chpt 21
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.