All 3 Uses
revere
in
Here, There be Dragons by Owen
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- It was a tradition common throughout cultures of the world to revere the elders of a society, and since the days of Methuselah, it had simply been assumed that the older a person was, the more life experience they'd had: Therefore, they were probably wiser than anyone else.
Chpt 3.10 *revere = respect or admire
- One of the greatest of the lands, and spoken about with reverence for many, many years.†
Chpt 6.23reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- "These aren't copies," said John, touching the pages with reverence.†
Chpt 6.24
Definitions:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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(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.