0 a feeling of respect or admiration for someone or something: --
She has/shows/feels great reverence for her professors.
It does not always show any due reverence to authorship.
Heart-and-soul devotion to a cause, heart-and-soul loyalty to associates, fidelity to the death, are virtues which command our involuntary reverence.
The committee concluded that the ground in which one's forefathers rested should be treated with reverence by the living generation.
The common law was as much a part of the ancient constitution as the nation's political institutions and should be treated with comparable reverence.
Even in the case of a private dispute, it seems, once the dispute was brought to official notice, habitual reverence for the written word prevailed.
Until the late eighteenth century spatial relationships between theatre performers and spectators provoked interaction rather than reverence.
This may in fact be taken as the simultaneous expression of reverence to a higher power and hope for good seasonal weather to come.
One could equally argue that the exhortation is for respect and not for religious reverence.
