as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
devotees coming to reverence their god
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as in deference
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Recent Examples of reverence
Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Feb. 2025
Saint Heron remains dedicated to empowering future art practitioners by reverencing the spiritual act of creating and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 June 2023
Will Speros, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2025
The tour guides will mention this room with reverence.
—Shyla Watson, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Verb
But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Feb. 2025
Saint Heron remains dedicated to empowering future art practitioners by reverencing the spiritual act of creating and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 June 2023
Noun
The design by Walker Warner Architects evokes a dramatic statement in dialogue but also in reverence to the setting, something the private client sought to honor.
—Will Speros, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2025
The tour guides will mention this room with reverence.
—Shyla Watson, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reverence
Verb
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The next day, Good Friday, people attended solemn local liturgies to venerate — or at some events, carry their own — crosses.—
Allyson Vergara,
Oc Register,
20 Apr. 2025
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The hall was built by the Crusaders in the 12th century, though pilgrims have venerated the site as early as the 4th century.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But in deference to the Cavaliers, that’s what good teams can do, basically take the temperature of the game, measure what is needed, and then seize the moment when the moment needs to be seized.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Apr. 2025
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For the 51 percent of Americans who have one, those dark blue passports are perhaps the most valuable documents in the world, entitling their holders to a level of deference from most foreign officials that citizens of other countries could only dream of.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Greeks, Jews, Romans — rich and poor — all worshipped together in homes and built close relationships with one another.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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There’s something like a musical manosphere nowadays, fanbases full of terminally online acolytes who worship artists with varying histories of grifting and misogyny.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2025
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Maresca would not have been the first Chelsea coach to deploy such methods, but his appreciation of Acheampong has always felt sincere, fitting neatly into his specific veneration of versatility in high-level footballers.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The image that Ruby and Myka sold to their viewers relied on the veneration of motherly authority—the idea that the domestic sphere is where women hold court and exert quiet control.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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Miley acknowledged that everyone in baseball loved and revered Uecker but said the longtime announcer and former catcher was an even better person behind the scenes.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Joseph Lawrence, whose adoration of his first wife blinds him to all other women, is getting dragged to the strip club.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2025
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TikTok users were quick to share their adoration of the special moment.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Empathy rather than the idolatry of power will actually make our nation strong.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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Miracle workers, moreover, often become the subjects of so much popular devotion that their authority can begin to approach idolatry or rival that of the Church itself.—
Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Reverence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverence. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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