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reverence

[rev-er-uhns, rev-ruhns] / ˈrɛv ər əns, ˈrɛv rəns /


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Maybe there’s something in our work that shows a reverence for the culture that maybe you don’t see in everyday media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Critics either praised the experimentation, or questioned its reverence to flamenco history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Here, Moore shows reverence not only for her own craft, but for all the hopeful idealists who pine to know what it feels like to lose yourself in someone, or something, else.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Out of that reverence for the group’s music, Peña noted that all the Smiths covers will be performed only in English.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

“My father praised Robert without respite! So my behavior was disgracious. But such reverences, such empathies that existed between them, they are very combustible. Friendship is a calmer thing. Robert left Zedelgem in winter.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

This by the help of the observation already premised, and I hope already weighed and perpended by your reverences and worships, I shall forthwith make appear.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Although he reverences the great actors who have preceded him, Irving takes but little note of tradition.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon

But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

Most white Americans were of British descent, they drew their political principles from English history, and they reverenced the king as protector of his people and their liberties.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Low-churchmen do not pray to the Virgin; she is reverenced but, by those who enjoy detecting a fine distinction, as the mother of Christ rather than as the mother of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan.

From Time Magazine Archive

I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

He beseeches the Greeks to restore to him his dear child, the maiden Chryseis, their captive, and to accept in return the proffered ransom, reverencing the god.

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

You must have manufactured this riddle out of sheer wantonness, for in the indictment you charge me with reverencing gods!

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The caretaker’s wife was Irish, and a Catholic, reverencing the Church in all its manifestations.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

As Hertha moved toward them she saw the life that glowed before her, a life filled with affectionate, reverencing love.

From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington


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