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Core action
Regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
Example
Many students revere the scientist as a pioneer.
revere
/rɪˈvɪər/ · rih-VEERverb
Regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
Use revere to express this relationship precisely: regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
What revere Really Means
The word becomes easier to use when its closely related senses are separated and compared.
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Common construction
Use this expression in its normal grammatical frame so the relationship between the surrounding ideas remains explicit.
Example
The community reveres the grove as sacred.
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Reasoning effect
It tells the reader how to interpret the timing, scope, evidence, contrast, condition, or consequence in the statement.
Example
To revere a thinker does not require accepting every claim.
Use revere Naturally
Notice how the surrounding noun or clause reveals the exact shade of meaning.
Many students revere the scientist as a pioneer.
The community reveres the grove as sacred.
To revere a thinker does not require accepting every claim.
Precision Matters
Revere overlaps with several common words, but each carries a different emphasis.
revere
vs.Means regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
scorn
Means a feeling or expression of contemptuous disrespect and intense dislike.
revere
vs.Means regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
condemn
Means express strong disapproval of something as wrong, harmful, or unacceptable; sometimes formally sentence someone to punishment.
revere
vs.Means regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
contempt
Means a feeling or expression that someone or something is worthless, inferior, or deserving of scorn.
revere
vs.Means regard someone or something with profound respect, admiration, or awe.
venerate
Means regard or treat someone or something with profound respect, reverence, or devotion.
Test revere in Context
They regard the composer with profound respect and awe.
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Generations of musicians ___ the composer as a transformative master.