Word Finder - reverence

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Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.

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An act of showing respect, such as a bow.

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The state of being revered.

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A form of address for some members of the clergy.

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your reverence

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That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

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To show or feel reverence to.

synonyms

• honour
• venerate

Everything her father did inspired her with reverence and was beyond question.

It is respectful to show reverence to those who have passed away.

Please have an attitude of reverence towards the veterans and honor their sacrifice.

Everyone in the crowded room knew Pastor Humphries and treated him with the reverence as a visiting cardinal.

The brick tower in Pavia in which he was confined was, and still is, an object of reverence to the country people.

Let history speak of your name in reverence.

The root of my spirituality is reverence for nature.

Patrick was doubtless educated as a Christian and was imbued with reverence for the Roman Empire.

His policy was evidently to find a deity that should win the reverence alike of Greeks and Egyptians.

The knight showed reverence to the king by bowing before him.

The religious leaders inspired awe and reverence in the congregation with their wisdom and faith.

It is regarded with great reverence, owing to a legend that the inner band of iron has been hammered out of one of the nails of the true cross.

He can see the wholeness of life and feels a deep reverence for the beauty of it all.

He was beautifully loyal to his mother and his sister Wilhelmina; his letters to the duchess of Gotha are full of a certain tender reverence; the two Keiths found him a devoted friend.

The recital of the Azan must be listened to with the utmost reverence.

It's associated with royalty, which lends the color an automatic edge of reverence.

His official definition stated that veganism "excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life."

The blood rains through the platform on to the priest below, who receives it on his face, and even on his tongue and palate, and after the baptism presents himself before his fellow-worshippers purified and regenerated, and receives their salutations and reverence.

The chief object of his reverence was Goethe.

Its religious scheme is the simplest form of theism; religion is reverence for God and obedience to His laws.

Among these was Synesius, afterwards (c. 410) bishop of Ptolemais, several of whose letters to her, full of chivalrous admiration and reverence, are still extant.

Sir John Taylor Coleridge, his fellow scholar at Corpus and his life-long friend, says of him, after their friendship of five and fifty years had closed, "It was the singular happiness of his nature, remarkable even in his undergraduate days, that love for him was always sanctified by reverence - reverence that did not make the love less tender, and love that did but add intensity to the reverence."

His congregation in Norwich held him in reverence and love; but his Calvinist opponents pictured him writhing in hell.

We strive to cultivate reverence and respect to each other and to approach all aspects of our life together as a shared undertaking.

Interestingly enough, the practical nature of this earth sign is somewhat paired with a wistful reverence for the more beautiful aspects of nature and life.

After this disaster he issued a third Mississippi Valley novel, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, in 1894, and in 1896 another historical romance, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, wherein the maid is treated with the utmost sympathy and reverence.

Their most singular feature, perhaps, was their reverence for the sun.

Even if Dietrich of Niem frequently painted him too black, there is no question that the means which Boniface employed to fill the papal treasury seriously impaired the prestige of the highest spiritual office and the reverence due to it.

The Iberians still reverence as saints the Armenian doctors of the 5th century, but as early as 552 they began to resent the dictatorial methods of the Armenians, as well might a proud race of mountaineers who never wholly lost their political independence; and they broke off their allegiance to the Armenian see very soon afterwards, accepted Chalcedon and joined the Byzantine church.

The family tie between all the Carlyles was unusually strong, and Thomas regarded his father with a reverence which found forcible expression in his Reminiscences.

The Irish church has paid more reverence to St Patricius than to Palladius (373-463), and the church of St Patricius, himself a figure as important as obscure, certainly abounded in bishops; according to Angus the Culdee there were 1071, but these cannot have been bishops with territorial sees, and the heads of monasteries were more potent personages.

The fundamental conception is always that the Deity resides - or exercises a peculiarly powerful influence - in some definite locality; and to this locality the devout repair, either in reverence of their god, or in quest of his assistance and bounty.

As a man he retained the impressions of his youth, and his great work was to be also a monument of his reverence for the monks in general and for the disciples of Hilarion in particular.

Perhaps the chief things lacking in his attitude are, in the first place, reverence, of which, however, from a few passages, it is clear he was by no means totally devoid, and secondly, an appreciation of passion and poetry.

It shows in its author a want of reverence, a want of decency in the proper sense, a too great readiness to condescend to the easiest kind of ludicrous ideas and the kind most acceptable at that time to the common run of mankind.

To us, therefore, they are valuable not only for their eloquence, but still more as giving us our clearest insight into Livy's own sentiments, his lofty sense of the greatness of Rome, his appreciation of Roman courage and firmness, and his reverence for the simple virtues of older times.

Writing to Cecil before his accession he maintained, "am so far from any intention of persecution as I protest to God I reverence their church as our mother church, although clogged with many infirmities and corruptions, besides that I did ever hold persecution as one of the infallible notes of a false church."

Staunton, who accompanied him as second commissioner, refused to consent, as Lord Macartney had done in 1793, unless the admission was made that his sovereign was entitled to the same show of reverence from a mandarin of his rank.

Several of them were men of mark among the statesmen of the time, and it is the highest testimony to the character of Confucius that he inspired them with feelings of admiration and reverence.

With all reverence, an historical student has to deduct something from both these statements.

Almost all the learned doctors, he says, declare that the confessor may reveal it, but he adds, " the contrary opinion is the safer and better doctrine, and more consistent with religion and with the reverence due to the holy rite of confession."

The original reason for this was the reverence monies attaching to the memory of the Confessor, whose shrine and monu- stands in the central chapel behind the high altar.

In later times, with the introduction of Greek gods into the Roman theological system, Consus, who had never been the object of special reverence, sank to the level of a secondary deity, whose character was rather abstract and intellectual.

His knowledge of the Bible was such that he might have been called a living concordance; and on the margin of his copy of the Book of Martyrs are still legible the ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers, and his implacable enmity to the mystical Babylon.

Soon the irresistible charm of a book which gratified the imagination of the reader with all the action and scenery of a fairy tale, which exercised his ingenuity by setting him to discover a multitude of curious analogies, which interested his feelings for human beings, frail like himself, and struggling with temptations from within and from without, which every moment drew a smile from him by some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry, and nevertheless left on his mind a sentiment of reverence for God and of sympathy for man, began to produce its effect.

His father and uncles and others came to see him there, but the latter were angry, and would pay him no reverence.

For Aristotle the reverence of Averroes was unbounded, and to expound him was his chosen task.

This was the executioner, who is half converted by the woman, and shows the most profound reverence for her.

Ancestor worship, or reverence for the dead, was a third factor.

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