save your reverence

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save your reverence - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Reverence \Rev"er*ence\, n. [F. r['e]v['e]rence, 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.
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              If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. --Chaucer.
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              Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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              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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     Note: Formerly, as in Chaucer, reverence denoted "respect"
           "honor", without awe or fear.
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     2. The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an
        obeisance.
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              Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about
              twopence.                             --Goldsmith.
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              And each of them doeth all his diligence
              To do unto the feast reverence.       --Chaucer.
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     3. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence;
        reverend character; dignity; state.
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              I am forced to lay my reverence by.   --Shak.
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     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.
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     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.
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              Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he
              say. "Sir reverence."                 --Shak.
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     To do reverence, to show reverence or honor; to perform an
        act of reverence.
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              Now lies he there,
              And none so poor to do him reverence. --Shak.
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     Syn: Awe; honor; veneration; adoration; dread.
  
     Usage: Awe, Reverence, Dread, Veneration. Reverence
            is a strong sentiment of respect and esteem, sometimes
            mingled slightly with fear; as, reverence for the
            divine law. Awe is a mixed feeling of sublimity and
            dread in view of something great or terrible, sublime
            or sacred; as, awe at the divine presence. It does not
            necessarily imply love. Dread is an anxious fear in
            view of an impending evil; as, dread of punishment.
            Veneration is reverence in its strongest
            manifestations. It is the highest emotion we can
            exercise toward human beings. Exalted and noble
            objects produce reverence; terrific and threatening
            objects awaken dread; a sense of the divine presence
            fills us with awe; a union of wisdom and virtue in one
            who is advanced in years inspires us with veneration.
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