All 13 Uses
revere
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Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- Out shuffled the lama to the main hall, and, the Curator beside him, went through the collection with the reverence of a devotee and the appreciative instinct of a craftsman.†
Chpt 1reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Then he composed himself reverently to listen to fragments hastily rendered into Urdu.†
Chpt 1 *reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The gentle, tolerant folk looked on reverently.†
Chpt 2
- A naked child toddled up, stared, and, moved by some quick impulse of reverence, made a solemn little obeisance before the lama—only the child was so short and fat that it toppled over sideways, and Kim laughed at the sprawling, chubby legs.†
Chpt 3reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Lamas I know, and to these I give reverence, but thou art no more a lawful chela than this my finger is the pole of this wagon.†
Chpt 4
- He could see the carter's bare chest collapse with amazement, as the man salaamed reverently to the voice, leaped from the pole, and helped the escort haul their volcano on to the main road.†
Chpt 4reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- At least one-third of the population prays eternally to some group or other of the many million deities, and so reveres every sort of holy man.†
Chpt 11reveres = deeply respects and admires
- 'When one is far from one's own land such things carry remembrance; and we must reverence the Lord for that He showed the Way.†
Chpt 11reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The coolies, earth-coloured and mute, crouched reverently some twenty or thirty yards away, and the Babu, the slack of his thin gear snapping like a marking-flag in the chill breeze, stood by with an air of happy proprietorship.†
Chpt 13reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- As a player of the Great Game, he was disposed just then to reverence the Babu.†
Chpt 13reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The woman laughed at his confusion irreverently.†
Chpt 14irreverently = with a lack of respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverently means not and reverses the meaning of reverently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- 'I sent a word to the hakim,' Kim explained, while she made reverence.†
Chpt 14reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- 'Before our Lord won Enlightenment'—the lama folded all away with reverence—'He was tempted.†
Chpt 14
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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(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.