All 5 Uses

revere
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A Death in the Family
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Why can't we just keep a reverent silence!†
Chpt 12 *

reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the strength that human beings have, to endure; she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure.†
Chpt 18

revered = deeply respected and admired
That when they come to understand this thing which in Thy inscrutable wisdom Thou hast brought to pass, they may know and reverence Thy will.†
Chpt 18

reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
and while their mother and her father hesitated at the head of the steps and behind them, all the dark column of mourners hesitated likewise, the men who carried their heavy father lifted him as if he were hard to lift and they were careful but unwilling, and studiously, with reverent nudgings and hitchings, shoved the coffin so deeply into the dark wagon that only its hard end showed, and they could hear a streetcar coming.†
Chpt 19

reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
His uncle had talked about God, and Christians, and faith, with as much hatred as he had seemed, a minute before, to talk with reverence or even with love.†
Chpt 20

reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear

Definitions:

(1) (revere)
regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
(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.