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reverence

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


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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz wrote that Mr. Altman is “often described, either with reverence or with suspicion, as the greatest pitchman of his generation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Much of my life is dedicated to preaching that art, and practicing reverence for it can be the glue that keeps us together when the world wants us torn apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

The unassuming lozenge-shaped vehicle stands ready to conjure reverence in anyone who holds childhood memories of that film dear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Then the withered tree was uprooted, but with reverence; and they did not burn it, but laid it to rest in the silence of Rath Dínen.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Far different were the results achieved by Domingo de Guzman, whom the Latin Church reverences as the greatest and most successful of its champions.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Grave magistrates made their deep reverences, each humbler than a suitor asking for audience.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

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

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

Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and when the country was first unified by the Ch'in dynasty in 221 B.C., its capital was near present-day Sian.

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

As Hertha moved toward them she saw the life that glowed before her, a life filled with affectionate, reverencing love.

From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

I, reverencing the people, did not bate My reverence of their deed and oracle, Nor vainly prate Of better and of worse Against the great conclusion of their will.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

They reverently bore them—reverencing the beauty, and above all reverencing them as the work of One who had given him aid to think of their creation, and to embody them according to the pure conception.

From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore

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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