reverence

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

Even so, we were united in a moment of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Throughout human history eclipses have stirred amazement, fear and reverence, as they appear to momentarily halt the normal course of nature.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Now, as the trial of Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s alleged killer, begins, something has replaced that reverence.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

He couldn’t like Professor Trelawney, even though she was treated with respect bordering on reverence by many of the class.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

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

But Posterity reverences Genius, for posterity only can decide on its true worth.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

"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

And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon.

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

And they charged him saying, Regard this mirror precisely as if it were our august spirit, and reverence it as if reverencing us.

From Japan by David Murray

A people who, reverencing beauty, reverenced likewise grace or acted beauty, so utterly and honestly, that nothing was too humble for a free man to do, if it were not done awkwardly and ill. 

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.—Æschylus.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou