noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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It was a continual source of irritation to Lewis that Adam did not show more respect and deference to Hilbert.
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At least for a short time, schoolmates often showed deference to their fallen peers.
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That the other women had never shown any deference to that status was a perennial aggravation.
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Now, in her prime years, she was treated with respect, deference and even a little awe.
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He treated Dean with extreme deference .
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The body was treated with no special deference .
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Are they treated with excessive deference or friendly banter?
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Could I be content to be an exception, one among a small group of professional women who were treated with deference ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Visiting officials were treated with great deference .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet, I overstated the barber's deference and this made me misunderstand, crucially, Waugh's novel.
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At least for a short time, schoolmates often showed deference to their fallen peers.
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But everyone erupted into giggles and bolted down the street as free of deference as the wind.
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His manipulation of impudence and deference was too assured for that.
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In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
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Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference , and Omi paid it with subtle superiority.
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So educational achievement rather than nepotism offers a background to the respect, status and deference accorded to elites.
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They are also used to unquestioning deference to their own leaders, be they family, clan or tribe.