All 27 Uses
revere
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- Some heads were bowed upon folded arms, some lay back with open mouths that issued unconscious music; the flies buzzed and bit, unmolested, the rats swarmed softly out from a hundred holes, and pattered about, and made themselves at home everywhere; and one of them sat up like a squirrel on the king's head and held a bit of cheese in its hands and nibbled it, and dribbled the crumbs in the king's face with naive and impudent irreverence.†
Chpt 3irreverence = a lack of respectstandard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- I was even impatient for to-morrow to come, I so wanted to gather in that great triumph and be the center of all the nation's wonder and reverence.†
Chpt 6reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- I had to go out a dozen times a day and show myself to these reverent and awe-stricken multitudes.†
Chpt 7reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- The animal is not reverenced, neither was I; I was not even respected.†
Chpt 8reverenced = respected
- I had no pedigree, no inherited title; so in the king's and nobles' eyes I was mere dirt; the people regarded me with wonder and awe, but there was no reverence mixed with it; through the force of inherited ideas they were not able to conceive of anything being entitled to that except pedigree and lordship.†
Chpt 8reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too—I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared—at least to all intents and purposes.†
Chpt 8
- Such a personage was fawned upon in Arthur's realm and reverently looked up to by everybody, even though his dispositions were as mean as his intelligence, and his morals as base as his lineage.†
Chpt 8reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- These poor ostensible freemen who were sharing their breakfast and their talk with me, were as full of humble reverence for their king and Church and nobility as their worst enemy could desire.†
Chpt 13reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Suddenly, even while the priest was lifting his hands, and all conscious heads were bowed in reverent expectation of the coming blessing, there appeared under the arch of the far-off door at the bottom of the hall an old and bent and white-haired lady, leaning upon a crutch-stick; and she lifted the stick and pointed it toward the queen and cried out: "The wrath and curse of God fall upon you, woman without pity, who have slain mine innocent grandchild and made desolate this old heart that had nor chick, nor friend nor stay nor comfort in all this world but him!"†
Chpt 17reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- And when I saw her fling herself upon those hogs, with tears of joy running down her cheeks, and strain them to her heart, and kiss them, and caress them, and call them reverently by grand princely names, I was ashamed of her, ashamed of the human race.†
Chpt 20reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The next morning Sandy assembled the swine in the dining-room and gave them their breakfast, waiting upon them personally and manifesting in every way the deep reverence which the natives of her island, ancient and modern, have always felt for rank, let its outward casket and the mental and moral contents be what they may.†
Chpt 21reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Right so came they to be known of all the world by reason of these holy austerities, and visited by rich and poor, and reverenced.†
Chpt 21reverenced = respected
- I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language.†
Chpt 22reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- I was so impressed with this, that sometimes when she began to empty one of these sentences on me I unconsciously took the very attitude of reverence, and stood uncovered; and if words had been water, I had been drowned, sure.†
Chpt 22
- Groups of gazing pilgrims stood around all and every of these strange objects, lost in reverent wonder, and envious of the fleckless sanctity which these pious austerities had won for them from an exacting heaven.†
Chpt 22reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- He was a mighty celebrity; his fame had penetrated all Christendom; the noble and the renowned journeyed from the remotest lands on the globe to pay him reverence.†
Chpt 22reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- When I started to the chapel, the populace uncovered and fell back reverently to make a wide way for me, as if I had been some kind of a superior being—and I was.
Chpt 23 *reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- I had lived in a clammy atmosphere of reverence, respect, deference, so long that they sent a quivery little cold wave through me: HIGH TIMES IN THE VALLEY OF HOLINESS!†
Chpt 26reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Then I read in a low voice, to as many as could crowd their shaven heads within hearing distance, part of the account of the miracle of the restoration of the well, and was accompanied by astonished and reverent ejaculations all through: "Ah-h-h!"†
Chpt 26reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a countenance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air—he couldn't even see him.†
Chpt 31
- He could do it, maybe; but at the same time he would wonder how a small farmer happened to be carrying so much money around in his pocket; which was probably this goldsmith's thought, too; for he followed me to the door and stood there gazing after me with reverent admiration.†
Chpt 31
- "I know it of mine own knowledge," said the mason, in the same reverent fashion.†
Chpt 32
- The guests were petrified, and the mason muttered: "There is that about earthly pomps which doth ever move to reverence."†
Chpt 32reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- I had the smith's reverence now, because I was apparently immensely prosperous and rich; I could have had his adoration if I had had some little gimcrack title of nobility.†
Chpt 33
- An age of dogs, an age barren of reverence for superiors and respect for authority!†
Chpt 33
- The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.†
Chpt 40
- The first time she heard that form of salute used at the telephone she was surprised, and not pleased; but I told her I had given order for it: that henceforth and forever the telephone must always be invoked with that reverent formality, in perpetual honor and remembrance of my lost friend and her small namesake.†
Chpt 41reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
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.