| 单词 | to pay reverence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay reverence (to) b. to pay reverence (to): to show respect or deep admiration for a person, object, idea, etc.; (also) to show veneration for (a god). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > revere [verb (intransitive)] > show reverence to do (also make) reverence (to)a1325 to pay reverence (to)1616 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. v, in Wks. I. 26 Age was authoritie Against a buffon: and a man had, then, A certaine reuerence pai'd vnto his yeeres. 1693 J. Dryden Examen Poeticum Ded. sig. A5v 'Tis not with an ultimate intention to pay Reverence to the Manes of Shakespear [etc.]. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 169 Paying their Reverence in a manner much more Rational. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 235 Their genius and character, as well as the reverence paid to their important office, have been sufficiently illustrated. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 128 Ye Men of prostrate mind! A seemly reverence may be paid to power. 1879 H. Phillips Worship of Sun (1880) 5 The reverence paid to the heavenly orbs. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 222/1 It is to Amaterasu (the heaven-illuminating goddess) that the Japanese pay reverence above all other deities. 1969 Amer. Art Jrnl. 1 10 Surely it is suitable to look back and pay reverence to the earliest (and probably the greatest) chronicler of American art. 2005 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 6 May 67 The production pays reverence to the majesty of the text. < as lemmas |
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