All 5 Uses
revere
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
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- O great Themis and revered Diana, do ye behold what I suffer, having bound my accursed husband by powerful oaths?†
revered = deeply respected and admired
- Wilt thou then banish me, nor reverence my prayers?†
reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- For never, I swear by my mistress whom I revere most of all, and have chosen for my assistant, Hecate, who dwells in the inmost recesses of my house, shall any one of them wring my heart with grief with impunity.
*revere = respect or admire
- The reverence of oaths is gone, nor does shame any longer dwell in mighty Greece, but hath fled away through the air.†
reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- But my mistress, whom we now reverence instead of thee, before she saw thy two sons enter, held her cheerful eyes fixed on Jason; afterward however she covered her eyes, and turned aside her white cheek, disgusted at the entrance of thy sons; but thy husband quelled the anger and rage of the young bride, saying this; Be not angry with thy friends, but cease from thy rage, and turn again thy face, esteeming those as friends, whom thy husband does.†
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.