reverence
/ˈɹɛv.ə.ɹəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Professional hunters and trackers die too, in the pursuit of dangerous animals every year. Stones and his client voice reverence for what they call “fair chase”: an ethical distinction observed in certain sporting circles in which the quarry is felt to have a sporting chance of survival."
- "August 2, 1758, Oliver Goldsmith, A Letter from a Traveller Make twenty reverences upon receiving […] about twopence."
- "When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost."
- "Your Reverence"
- "Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by."
- "I reverence every precept / And promise in Thy word"
Etymology
From Middle English reverence (noun) and reverencen (verb), from Old French reverence and Latin reverentia, from Latin revereor (“to stand in awe, respect, revere”), from re- + vereor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, heed, notice”).