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reverence

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


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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

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

With funnel cakes in the shape of her beloved butterfly and fashion exhibits with eye-popping heels and wigs, Dolly Parton’s theme park has history, entertainment, reverence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

He acknowledged many people had a "negative" view of food creators, but added: "People give them too much reverence in the first place. They're just people with an opinion."

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Zheng closed his eyes, speaking with a kind of reverence.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

He so reverences veracity, honour, and good faith, as to expect them like the daylight, and hears of their violation with a flush of scorn.

From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake

"And may I ask," said the judge, "how much Cheong-Chau reverences the Five Sacred Books?"

From Held by Chinese Brigands by Herbert Strang

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

Citation: "You have repeatedly demonstrated the Socratic dictum: No man is to be reverenced more than the truth."

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

Besides, there was between them that bond which is formed between a subordinate reverencing his chief with his whole soul and a chief who feels this clearly.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

On such ground we tread lightly, reverencing the great and mighty dead.

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

One of the reasons why one rather disbelieves in reverencing stupidity is that it is not always as honest as it looks.

From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

I do not yield to any one in honoring and reverencing the noble and patriotic men who were in the councils of the nation during the terrible struggle with the rebellion.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud




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