Examples of revere

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The commissive aspect embodied in the oath makes the oath institutional, more deified, revered, and dangerous, and hence a verbal taboo.
The mountains and lakes were now revered as a source of" uplift".
A past that is revered shewed itself to be unsatisfactory with peculiar force in the final section of the preceding chapter.
Through everything, the eye reveres that which can be seen -that is, the thing to which it is bound.
There is not even a record of where her body was buried, much less any indication that her relics were revered.
Now she is revered as the protector of the city and people pray to her for favours.
Ancestors are revered, and worship focuses on veneration of these lineage founders.
Though ancient forms of wisdom revered maxims, this is now little understood.
Not all oaths of office were revered all of the time.
The resulting memorandum ought to be revered as a historic text of construction management.
However, much as audiences and critics revered these players, many of them encountered criticism when they no longer performed in the style for which they had become famous.
Our religious past proves revered but unsatisfactory, and so gives rise to the attempts to accommodate our past to what we should like it to have been.
What he underlines is the price that has to be paid when a culture so reveres its own past that it neglects to focus its intelligence on its present.
Scientists, however, were both reviled and revered.
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