Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who feels or displays reverence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who regards with reverence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
reverences something.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I, the chaste, and the reverencer of the Gods, I who in modesty exceed all, have lost my life, and go to a manifest hell beneath the earth; but in vain have I labored in the task of piety toward men.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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(True favourite of Shashthi), Pavitra (The holy), Matrivatsala (The reverencer of his mother), Kanya-bhartri (The protector of virgins),
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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He is not a questioner and a despiser, but a teacher and a reverencer; not a destroyer, but a builder-up; not a wit only, but a wise man.
English literary criticism Various
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That was what she had the shrewdness to formulate in the ecstasy of her transport; and so eloquent was the mute revelation of her love that Littleton, diffident reverencer of the modesty of woman as he was, without a word from her clasped her to his breast, a victor in a breath.
Unleavened Bread Robert Grant 1896
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Of Ashur-bani-pal, his (thy) shepherd, reverencer of thy divinity. [
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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