Both Uses
revere
in
The Women of Brewster Place
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- Making Ciel rise and kneel in the tub, she cleaned the crack in her behind, soaped her pubic hair, and gently washed the creases in her vagina—slowly, reverently, as if handling a newborn.†
p. 104.8reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- She gently lifted the dimpled arms and legs and then reverently placed them back.†
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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.