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- It should be sad, and I know it should be reverent.†
p. 234.4reverent = feeling or showing respect and admiration
- They went inside, and there she found hushed reverence.†
p. 234.6reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- To sit, perhaps, in that quiet reverence.†
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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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(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.