All 8 Uses of
revere
in
An American Tragedy
- Apart from his father, perhaps, there was no one here to whom he offered any reverence.
Chpt 2 *reverence = respect and admiration
- As for the parents of Roberta, they were excellent examples of that native type of Americanism which resists facts and reveres illusion.†
Chpt 2
- And yet as an offset to all this, of course, was he not a Griffiths and so entitled to their respect and reverence even on this account?†
Chpt 2
- His charm and his reverence for her and her station flattered and intrigued her.†
Chpt 2
- And at the very same time he represented physical as well as mental attributes which were agreeable to her—amorousness without the courage at the time, anyhow, to annoy her too much; reverence which yet included her as a very human being; a mental and physical animation which quite matched and companioned her own.†
Chpt 2
- And she had paid no least attention to his plea that her forcing him to marry her now would ruin him socially as well as in every other way, and that even in the face of his willingness to work along and pay for her support—an attitude which, as he now described it, was what had caused all the trouble—whereas Miss Finchley (and here he introduced an element of reverence and enthusiasm which Jephson was quick to note) was willing to do everything for him.†
Chpt 3
- "Gentlemen of the jury," and here his voice took on an almost reverential tone, "Roberta Alden loved this defendant with all the strength of her soul.†
Chpt 3
- …as she now contended, if only some powerful and righteous emissary of God would visit Clyde and through the force of his faith and God's word make him see—which she was sure he did not yet, and which she in her troubled state, and because she was his mother, could not make him,—the blackness and terror of his sin with Robertar as it related to his immortal soul here and hereafter,—then in gratitude to, reverence and faith in God, would be washed away, all his iniquity, would it not?†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(revere) regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear