All 8 Uses
revere
in
Faust — Part 1 — translated by Theil
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- But the familiar chords among
Boldly to sweep, with graceful cunning,
While to its goal, the verse along
Its winding path is sweetly running;
This task is yours, old gentlemen, to-day;
Nor are you therefore less in reverence held;
Age does not make us childish, as folk say,
It finds us genuine children e'en in eld.†reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear - MICHAEL
And tempests roar in emulation
From sea to land, from land to sea,
And raging form, without cessation,
A chain of wondrous agency,
Full in the thunder's path careering,
Flaring the swift destructions play;
But, Lord, Thy servants are revering
The mild procession of thy day.†revering = regarding with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear - Thee, with reverent awe,
Down from thine old receptacle I draw!†*reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration - The sire
Thee to his boy with reverence shows;
They press around, inquire, advance,
Hush'd is the fiddle, check'd the dance.†reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear - MEPHISTOPHELES
Your learned reverence humbly I salute!† - A STUDENT enters
STUDENT
But recently I've quitted home,
Full of devotion am I come
A man to know and hear, whose name
With reverence is known to fame.† - STUDENT (reads)
ERITIS SICUT DEUS, SCIENTES BONUM ET MALUM
(He reverently closes the book and retires.)†reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear - IGNIS FATUUS
Through reverence, I hope I may subdue
The lightness of my nature; true,
Our course is but a zigzag one.†reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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.