Reverence

(noun.) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy).

(noun.) a reverent mental attitude.

(verb.) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; 'Fear God as your father'; 'We venerate genius'.

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• Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Well, at any rate, I revoke what I said this morning--that you Milton people did not reverence the past. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• At one point in the service a bell would be rung and a mirror lifted up, while the whole congregation, in an access of reverence, bowed lower. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Mr. Higgins, I trust, whatever else you have given up, you believe'--(Mr. Hale's voice dropped low in reverence)--'you believe in Him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But they left it in limbo, they reverenced it, and they passed by. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was no mocking-bird of praise, to try because another extolled what he reverenced and passionately loved, to outdo him in laudation. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• So that what course save one was there now left for any son who reverenced his mother's memory as Yeobright did? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The therns worshipped the hideous plant men and the apes, or at least they reverenced them as the abodes of the departed spirits of their own dead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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