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.
Webster 1913

self-reverence

Self`-rev"er*ence noun
Definitions
  1. A reverent respect for one's self. Tennyson.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913