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Definition
regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration — sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- The people revered the statue of Bel and went every day to worship it, but Daniel worshiped the Lord our Savior.Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (19% in)
revered = regarded with feelings of deep respect and admiration
- Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on.Book 1 — Genesis (4% in)
- Reverent and Misrus Underdown, who started the African children on going to church way back years ago.Book 1 — Genesis (19% in)
- I was struck through with my own wayward brand of reverence: praise be the lord of all plagues and secret afflictions!Book 1 — Genesis (93% in)
- Why, Daniel replied, 'I do not revere false idols but the living God, who is chief of all mankind.'Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (19% in)
- Not the paws of a leopard walking upright, turned against men by irreverence.Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (78% in)
There are no more uses of "revere" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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