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reverence

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


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Krusek says what makes the show compelling “is the spirit of the videos, just the sense of joyousness and benevolence that they communicate, and a real sense of reverence for the art and the artists.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The Box describes Cook as a "cultural chronicler" who painted marginalised people and recorded their lives with joy, kindness and reverence.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Yet Sparta, as a warrior culture, valued the young soldier to the point of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom