Both Uses
deference
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- The guard grasped them both firmly round the neck, and bowing deferentially toward his captain's back, hoicked them both protesting out of the bridge.†
Chpt 7deferentially = with polite respect
- They were aware that this day they would represent their entire race in its greatest moment, but they conducted themselves calmly and quietly as they seated themselves deferentially before the desk, opened their briefcases and took out their leather-bound notebooks.†
Chpt 25 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(deference) polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)