reverence : Idioms & Phrases
Save your reverence , Saving your reverence
- an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman.
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self-reverence
Self`-rev"er*ence noun
Definitions
A reverent respect for one's self. Tennyson.
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Sir reverence
- a contracted form of Save your reverence.
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.
Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. Shak.