reverence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.

   “Professional hunters and trackers die too, in the pursuit of dangerous animals every year. Stones and his client voice reverence for what they call “fair chase”: an ethical distinction observed in certain sporting circles in which the quarry is felt to have a sporting chance of survival.”

2. isim An act of showing respect, such as a bow.

   “August 2, 1758, Oliver Goldsmith, A Letter from a Traveller Make twenty reverences upon receiving […] about twopence.”

3. isim The state of being revered.

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

4. isim A form of address for some members of the clergy.

   “Your Reverence”

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

   “Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by.”

6. fiil To show or feel reverence to.

   “I reverence every precept / And promise in Thy word”