Reverence /(?)/

1. 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.

   Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear.

   When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost.

2. The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.

   Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence.

   And each of them doeth all his diligence To do unto the feast reverence.

3. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

   I am forced to lay my reverence by.

4. A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.

   Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. “Sir reverence.”

   Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

imp. & p. p. Reverenced; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverencing

1. To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

   Let . . . the wife see that she reverence her husband.

   Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise.