All 4 Uses
revere
in
A Shade of Vampire
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- After a hundred years of fighting for survival and leading my coven to The Shade, I'd grown accustomed to being revered and followed.†
p. 67.5revered = deeply respected and admired
- Vivienne, on the other hand, had a sager aura about her and I couldn't help but feel some sort of reverence toward her.†
p. 87.7 *reverence = feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear
- Other than for his physical prowess, I still wondered why they all held such reverence for him.†
p. 161.9
- He was lord of the vampires—feared, revered, and admired.†
p. 191.8revered = deeply respected and admired
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.