All 8 Uses of
revere
in
The Iliad
- The gods who hold Olympos, may they grant you plunder of Priam's town and a fair wind home, but let me have my daughter back for ransom as you revere Apollo, son of Zeus!
Book 1revere = have feelings of deep respect and admiration for
- And the great beauty, Helen, replied: "Revere you as I do, I dread you, too, dear father."
Book 3revere = deeply respect and admire
- He killed him, but, reverent at last in this, did not despoil him.
Book 6reverent = respectful
- Would I were sure of being immortal, ageless all my days, and reverenced like Athena and Apollo, .†
Book 8reverenced = respected
- If a man reveres the daughters of Zeus when they come near, he is rewarded, and his prayers are heard; but if he spurns them and dismisses them, they make their way to Zeus again and ask that Folly dog that man till suffering has taken arrogance out of him.†
Book 9reveres = deeply respects and admires
- He rose and cloaked his broad back with a spotted leopardskin, picked up a bronze-rimmed helmet for his head, and took a long spear in his fist, to go arouse his brother, lord of all the Argives, whom as a. god the common folk revered.†
Book 10revered = deeply respected and admired
- Andraimon's son, who ruled all Pleuron ... where country folk revered him as a god.
Book 13 *revered = respected and admired
- Akhilleus, be reverent toward the great gods!†
Book 24reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
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.