deference

• And the effect of the painter's conscious deference, and of the equally conscious pride of the boys, as they stood to be painted, has been somewhat to shorten the power of the one, and to abase the dignity of the other. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• Every one treated him with deference, all were eager to render service. —  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
• Mart noticed that they seemed to pay him deference, and he did most of the conversing, but so softly that no word reached the startled boys. —  The Pirate Shark
• He was treated with great deference, and appeared to me most like a doctor of divinity. —  Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
• The secret of successful missionary work lies primarily, not in tracts, nor in dogmas, nor in exhortations, but in the subtle attraction of a refined, benevolent spirit, breathing its very self into the lives of those who have hitherto known only the rasping, grasping selfishness of their fellow-men, and to whom this new gospel of brotherly kindness and deference is a marvelous revelation and inspiration. —  Etiquette

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