reverence

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

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

While Aang’s saga follows the trajectory of Western fantasies that revolve around a Chosen One, his stubborn insistence on nonviolence and befriending perceived enemies reflects Miyazaki’s reverence for empathy, innocence and life’s natural beauty.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Even North Korea, which plasters pictures of leader Kim Jong Un across the country and demands reverence, does not feature him in the passport, which instead depicts sacred Mount Paektu.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Thus wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America” about the reverence with which this country’s citizens in the 1830s regarded remunerative labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The Glastonbury Festival’s future wasn’t exactly Bavarian chic and hushed reverence either.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.

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

These gloomy reveries grew deeper and darker as he wandered from place to place, and marked the stealthy glances and timid reverences of the peasants as they passed him.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

All the people are making reverences and placing something on their foreheads like oil, but it may be holy water.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

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

Low-churchmen do not pray to the Virgin; she is reverenced but, by those who enjoy detecting a fine distinction, as the mother of Christ rather than as the mother of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan.

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

For some time we remained silent, reverencing the old man’s grief.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

What can excuse us from honouring and reverencing the Being, by whom we receive our Deliverance, our Preservation, and our Life?

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Yet how differently disposed—how devoted and affectionate—how, beyond measure, reverencing and adoring—the intelligence that governs me!

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas