reverence
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Curating with reverence and love, Rosales uses her voice to establish a baseline of respect that many historians fail to achieve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
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
As always, Parton led with a message of steadfast reverence for her fellow humans.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
“And you asking me for a story, whateffer, with his reverence here among the ashes!”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“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
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As this was said with a royal, as well as with a womanly dignity, no one presumed to demur, but, making the customary reverences, Columbus and our hero left the presence.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
It violates obligations, reverences fraud, and honors infamy.
From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life and reverenced it as deeply as many of his contemporaries seemed to fear or despise it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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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
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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
You must have manufactured this riddle out of sheer wantonness, for in the indictment you charge me with reverencing gods!
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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
What men are here—wild, insolent, unjust, or are they hospitable, reverencing the Gods?
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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