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Reverence is a British champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a specialist sprinter who was especially effective over five furlongs (1000m), recording all but one of his wins over the distance. Most unusually for a modern thoroughbred racehorse Reverence ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context. 2 An act of showing respect, such as a bow. 3 The state of being revered. 4 A form of address for some members of the clergy. 5 That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "treat with respect, honor; venerate, pay pious homage to; esteem, value; bow to (someone); do honor to," from reverence (n.). Related: Reverenced ; reverencing .\n

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reverence \Rev"er*ence\, n. [F. r['e]v['e]rence, L. reverentia. See Reverent .] Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God" [syn: fear , awe , veneration ] a reverent mental attitude [ant: irreverence ] v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your ...

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Camilla learnt, at length, this painful end of her embassy, she gave herself up so completely to despair, that Lavinia, affrighted, ran to the house for Eugenia, whose extreme youth was no impediment, in the minds of her liberal sisters, to their belief nor reverence of her superior wisdom.

Even the antral dusk of an old reverence may help to form the fitting mood through which shall slide unhindered the still small voice that makes appeal to what of God is yet awake in the soul.

It was only after the apostolic tradition, fixed in the form of a comprehensive collection, seemed to guarantee the admissibility of every form of Christianity that reverenced that collection, that the hellenising of Christianity within the Church began in serious fashion.

With great reverence, and that full humbly And at the last there then began anon A lady for to sing right womanly, A bargaret, in praising the daisy.

We watched it with very different emotions, Kilooa with superstitious reverence, Briery with scientific interest and intense disappointment, I with a heart full of wonder and gratitude.

With a deep reverence, which expressed my thanks, I left the room quietly and returned to my apartment, very impatient to read the sonnet.

Prince wrapped a Hudson Bay blanket about her with a mock reverence more real than feigned, while Malemute Kid, whose arm she had taken, found it a severe trial to resume his wonted mentorship.

Despite all the colorful flowers of celebration and reverence to Manion, the sight of wounded fighters on healer beds brought home the urgency to her.

He by no means agreed with all the Baptist doctrines, but he held in great esteem and reverence such men as Carey and Marshman, was glad to profit by their experience and instructions, and heartily sympathised in all their difficulties.

When priests and poets, supported by your authority, O Athenians, talk of a golden or silver age, which preceded the present state of vice and miscry, I hear them with attention and with reverence.

While many indigenous societies have a great reverence for nature, there are also both non-Western and Western peasant and nomadic cultures that have overgrazed and overcultivated land, decimated forests, and, where population pressures have been severe, killed off animals needlessly and indifferently.

Warmly approving the counsel that in all this business Meliboeus should proceed with great diligence and deliberation, Prudence goes on to examine the advice given by his neighbours that do him reverence without love, his old enemies reconciled, his flatterers that counselled him certain things privily and openly counselled him the contrary, and the young folk that counselled him to avenge himself and make war at once.

Catholics like Usingen protested at the excessive reverence given to Aristotle at the expense of Christ.

Sawle, the torpedoman cum wardroom messman, hurried beside him, and as Quinton ran up the bridge ladder and into the wheelhouse he handed Ainslie his cap with something like reverence.

A bishop, Amphilochius of Iconium, approached the throne, and after saluting, with due reverence, the person of his sovereign, he accosted the royal youth with the same familiar tenderness which he might have used towards a plebeian child.