reverence
noun
a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
reverenced
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past participleof reverence.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reverence.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reverencenouna feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
Example Sentences
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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
He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced.
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
