Both Uses
revere
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Earth's Holocaust
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- Bear it back, then, reverently, and set it up in its old place, else the world will fall to speedy ruin and desolation!†
*reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Crosses from the spires of old cathedrals were cast upon the heap with as little remorse as if the reverence of centuries passing in long array beneath the lofty towers had not looked up to them as the holiest of symbols.†
reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
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.