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Webster's English Dictionary

reverence

n. [F. rvrence, L. reverentia. See Reverent.]1. Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. ()

If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. (Chaucer.)

Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. (Coleridge.)

When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost. (Bacon.)

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2. The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance. ()

Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence. (Goldsmith.)

And each of them doeth all his diligence To do unto the feast reverence. (Chaucer.)

3. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. ()

I am forced to lay my reverence by. (Shak.)

4. A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. (Shak.)

Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contracted form of Save your reverence. [1913 Webster] Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. Sir reverence. Shak. [1913 Webster] -- To do reverence, to show reverence or honor; to perform an act of reverence. [1913 Webster] Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. Shak. ()

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v. t. To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate. ()

Let . . . the wife see that she reverence her husband. (Eph. v. 33.)

Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise. (Shak.)