All 4 Uses of
deference
in
Kim
- Kim saw their heads bent over Mahbub Ali's message, and heard the voices—one low and deferential, the other sharp and decisive.†
Chpt 2 *
- He styled all natives 'niggers'; yet servants and sweepers called him abominable names to his face, and, misled by their deferential attitude, he never understood.†
Chpt 6
- Step by step, withdrawing deferentially and dropping his voice, the yellow Saddhu clomb back to the carriage, cursing the D.S.P. to remotest posterity, by—here Kim almost jumped—by the curse of the Queen's Stone, by the writing under the Queen's Stone, and by an assortment of Gods with wholly, new names.†
Chpt 12
- The Babu advanced loftily; his back out of all keeping with his deferential speech, or his wink towards Kim.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(deference) polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes