deference

He stands a head taller than the woman, but he regards her with a familial deference.

Important men who might have expected from Eisman some sign of deference or respect, on the other hand, often came away from encounters with him shocked and outraged.

There was no deference in her tone or body language.

Congress delegated to the president the determination of what an emergency is, so a degree of deference to his judgment is in order.

Still, out of deference to his wife, he mostly keeps his constructions confined to a single room downstairs.