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"Reverence" in a Sentence (15 examples)
We should hold old people in reverence.
I felt profound reverence for the courageous mother.
He deserves our reverence.
He showed great reverence towards the pictures of the god.
Her behavior is worthy of reverence.
Benjamin called the sense of awe and reverence experienced before a great work of art "aura".
Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely.
There is a place in this world where we cannot and must not set foot. Knowing of this existence, to accept it and show it the greatest reverence is the first step to belief.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
Then to Anchises, as he bids us spread / the sails, with reverence speaks Apollo's seer, / "Far-famed Anchises, honoured with the bed / of haughty Venus, Heaven's peculiar care, / Twice saved from Troy! behold Ausonia there, / steer towards her coasts, yet skirt them; far away / that region lies, which Phoebus doth prepare. / Blest in thy son's devotion, take thy way. / Why should more words of mine the rising South delay?"
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August 2, 1758, Oliver Goldsmith, A Letter from a Traveller Make twenty reverences upon receiving […] about twopence.
When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost.
Your Reverence
Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by.
I reverence every precept / And promise in Thy word
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