reverence

• But this year it's worse, because this year, one of the religious leaders whom Vimes dislikes on principle and whom the Ankh-Morpork dwarves revere (and since they are city dwarves, with residual guilt for lives lived on the surface of the world and not in the dark depths, their reverence is almost desperate) appears to have been murdered. —  FSF,February2006
• Madame Tussaud's exhibition, the Lord-Mayor's gilt coach, and a coronation, if one happens to be in season, are all sights to be seen by an American traveller, but the reverence which is born with the British subject went up with the smoke of the gun that fired the long echoing shot at the little bridge over the sleepy river which works its way along through the wide-awake town of Concord. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I rally my self-reverence, my nobility of soul. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• He would not allow that he had any class-reverence, and yet he can no more get rid of it Miss Beecham, it is very difficult for me to say anything on such a subject Very difficult, and you show your delicacy by not saying anything. —  Phoebe, Junior
• The dead father or chieftain is still seen in the dreams of his children or people, and the mysteriousness of the new shape and presence he assumes excites the awe and reverence which is at the root of the religious habit. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles

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