reverence
Example Sentences
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Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.
The Box describes Cook as a "cultural chronicler" who painted marginalised people and recorded their lives with joy, kindness and reverence.
From BBC
George and Owen walked through the charred trees with a quiet reverence, as though they were walking through a battlefield with hundreds of fallen soldiers.
From Literature
But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.
From BBC
Missing in all this is any reverence for or even superstitious fear of the dead.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
