reverence
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“I will forever be grateful that from him I gained a deeper understanding and a reverence for the community and the culture of hardcore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Then you have the 2026 Philadelphia Phillies, who have as much reverence for tradition as a tourist with the audacity to ask for Camembert on his cheesesteak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
As always, Parton led with a message of steadfast reverence for her fellow humans.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
This part of the story called for reverence.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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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Even yet there is need of a higher recognition of the teaching profession in its true dignity by a civilization that reverences wealth more than intellectual and spiritual character.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
"Daughter-Marchioness," said Isabella, slightly answering the reverences of the circle, "dost thou still think this Colon expressly called of God, for the high purposes to which he pretendeth?"
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
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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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
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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
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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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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
One of the reasons why one rather disbelieves in reverencing stupidity is that it is not always as honest as it looks.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
His subjects were loving and peaceable, evidently regarding the English as gods and reverencing them as such.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
"After acquiring wealth in abundance, the twelve inner seats "Are to be thoroughly reverenced; what use of reverencing aught else below?
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
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