(n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
(n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
(n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
Example Sentences:
(1) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(2) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(4) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(5) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(6) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
(7) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(8) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(9) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
(10) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
(11) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(12) But many of the MEK's American supporters speak of the organisation almost with a reverence.
(13) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
(14) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
(15) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(16) He inspired that odd mixture of reverence and resentment that we now associate with celebrity, a phenomenon wrongly thought modern.
(17) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(18) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
(19) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(20) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.
Ungodly
Definition:
(a.) Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful.
(a.) Polluted by sin or wickedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In around 100 years time, multi-generational "problem" families will constitute a quarter of the population, sucking in billions of "our" tax dollars and placing "an ungodly burden" on our children and grandchildren, says US psychiatrist Dr Bruce Perry.
(2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
(3) One European diplomat closely involved with the talks despairs at the "Republican headbangers who cannot resist a chance to damage Obama, believe global warming is based on junk science and regard action on climate change as ungodly because it will delay the second coming".
(4) No staring at ceilings at ungodly hours fretting over problems that will be forgotten in weeks; no checking work emails, almost as a nervous tic, when they can wait; no neglecting friendships that sustain and give life meaning.
(5) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
(6) Out of the blue, Josh posted a 1,500-word blog on his own website that criticised everything from the way the band had been put together to the lyrics of Brand New Eyes, which he deemed ungodly.
(7) The targeted leaflet , which accuses Labour of undermining Christian values and promoting "ungodly lifestyles", was sent to 24,000 people in the borough.
(8) The ungodly screeching you hear are the cogs of Walford's criminal underworld grinding once more into motion.
(9) Nor may they play video games rated as suitable for those aged over 10, watch TV programmes rated beyond PG or read potentially “ungodly” periodicals including Esquire, People, Men’s Fitness and ESPN the Magazine.
(10) As things stand, we'd be looking at extra-time and penalties, which seem almost inevitable, considering I have to be back here in the office at some ungodly hour to record an extra early edition of Football Weekly Extra podcast .
(11) One of my young children wakes me at an ungodly hour before I travel into Shoreditch on my Brompton and the train, where I prepare for the day by meditating and praying.
(12) Why we are sat here being oppressed, while people from other tribes are hauling themselves up by their own ungodly efforts and buying three-piece suites.
(13) This is the first nomination for Caplan, who told ABC News : “I can safely say that this is one of the few phone calls a person wants to get at an ungodly hour.
(14) Aged 41 The motivation and energy the professor has is infectious, and the ungodly hours he keeps.
(15) I also know lots of male bakers – but they specialise in muscular sourdoughs, get up at ungodly hours to wrestle with great masses of dough, and most of them are, not to put too fine a point on it, sociopathic loons.