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reverence

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


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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

Much of my life is dedicated to preaching that art, and practicing reverence for it can be the glue that keeps us together when the world wants us torn apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Perhaps the doubters did not grasp the reverence in which the softly spoken yet inspirational woman from Bray is held.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Every element—the reverence for ingredients and the literary references baked into the plating—was unmistakably, deeply Chinese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Having a respect that amounted to reverence for the truth, he had also its natural opposite, a loathing of a lie.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

You can hardly imagine how glad I am, when every morning I perceive myself environed and surrounded with brigades of creditors,—humble, fawning, and full of their reverences.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock

"It is Your Highness' pleasure to command my presence," said the young man, as soon as he made his reverences to the queen.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

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

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

In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest.

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

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

My connections at home, although not Evangelical Christians, respected religion, and when I left, they counselled me to be always particular in observing the Lord's Day and reverencing it.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

He made every one stand and sit by turns, so that while one set were resting the other were reverencing the divine and angelic presences.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson

Yet how differently disposed—how devoted and affectionate—how, beyond measure, reverencing and adoring—the intelligence that governs me!

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall




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