| 词汇 | reverence |
| 释义 | reverence noun[ U ] uk /ˈrev.ər.əns/ us /ˈrev.ɚ.əns/ a feeling of respect or admiration for someone or something: 尊敬;崇敬 She has/shows/feels great reverence for her professors.她对教她的那些教授们很崇敬。 Showing respect and admiration admiration admire admiring admiringly approving approvingly forelock freedom fulsome fulsomely fulsomeness glorify grovelling pay your respectsidiom pedestal philogynist philogyny put someone on a pedestalidiom regild worshipful Examples of reverencereverence Natural philosophy was supposed to lead to moral virtue, to modesty and religious reverence. He fears that the result will be a language that will reduce 'truth, reverence, deliberation, and honest feeling' to secondary functions. At the same time, officers and their uniforms attracted reverence among those who could only aspire to this exalted position. Nor therefore does it feel the sentiment of respect or reverence for the moral law. This biography approaches its subject with reverence and absolute loyalty. With due reverence for philosophy, they rightly argue that an entire dimension of data has been ignored, namely, individual differences. The people held this idol in such reverence and awe that no one but his keepers dared approach or touch him. One could equally argue that the exhortation is for respect and not for religious reverence. This may in fact be taken as the simultaneous expression of reverence to a higher power and hope for good seasonal weather to come. Until the late eighteenth century spatial relationships between theatre performers and spectators provoked interaction rather than reverence. Even in the case of a private dispute, it seems, once the dispute was brought to official notice, habitual reverence for the written word prevailed. The common law was as much a part of the ancient constitution as the nation's political institutions and should be treated with comparable reverence. The committee concluded that the ground in which one's forefathers rested should be treated with reverence by the living generation. Heart-and-soul devotion to a cause, heart-and-soul loyalty to associates, fidelity to the death, are virtues which command our involuntary reverence. It does not always show any due reverence to authorship. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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