noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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With great reverence we laid it here in the Treasure House.
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She sounded really respectful and seemed to have the greatest reverence for that ancient custom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although conducted with reverence and not rushed, it was still completed very quickly.
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For here lay no more than a piece of meat, oblivious, inanimate, an object to be examined without reverence .
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I feel a kind of reverence in late summer when I visit that abandoned butterfly garden.
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I stood there, gazing down, and feeling a reverence for these spectacles of the natural world.
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Possibly that reverence for horned mountains extends back to the Neolithic period.
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She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence .
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The theme of the sermon was reverence and obedience.
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There was no privacy for the dead: the most one could hope for was a certain reverence .