0 willingness to consider the wishes etc of others -- hensyn, respekt, ærbødighet
He always treats his mother with deference.
1 the act of deferring. -- underkastelse, hensyntagen
This system of legal classification was intended to be logical, objective, and apolitical, while preserving judicial deference to the legislature.
An age set pays respect (inkanyit) to all groups senior to it and receives respect and deference from those junior to it.
Consequently, if an utterance contains a single honorific item, its overall deference effects may be locally unclear, or unconstruable.
Gone were the old certainties, the old codes of behaviour, the deference to nineteenth-century authority.
Note that we will see that it is possible that respect for dignity may not compel deference to autonomous choice.
Other cases came to the crown's notice through networks of patronage, which reinforced hierarchy and deference at every level.
The miners' declaration is couched in the language of deference, assuming the standard forms of respect granted to the monarch.
Local deference ensures that the scope of local political conflict is only minimally broadened in the state legislature.
