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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

“There was a kind of solemn reverence from everyone,” she said, “the guys who drove the trucks, the riggers, and the people from Port Authority. We felt it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

In Massachusetts and Connecticut there still lingered “a traditional reverence for certain families, which has rendered the offices of government nearly hereditary in those families.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Far different were the results achieved by Domingo de Guzman, whom the Latin Church reverences as the greatest and most successful of its champions.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Many of the others rose to their feet and made their reverences according to their kind, clumsy or clever.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced.

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 was obedient because he believed his father to be wise and good, reverencing the old man with simple, unquestioning veneration.

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“Jehovah” became a name for the Deity of a nation; each nation, while reverencing its own god, not denying power to that of another nation.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

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

For true religion comes not by violence, but chiefly, I think, from being brought up with good men, reverencing their ways and words.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett




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