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- Oz held it reverently.†
Chpt 11 *reverently = with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Oz eyed the rock with the reverence he usually reserved for grown-ups and church.†
Chpt 18reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- They all stopped and stared in reverence at a golden eagle perched on a limb of a ruler-straight eighty-foot poplar.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(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.