reverence (n.) Old form(s): Reuerence
respected state, venerable condition
2H6 V.ii.48[Young Clifford to his dead father] Wast thou ordained ... in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus / To die in ruffian battle?
KL IV.ii.42[Albany to Gonerill, of Lear] Whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick
KL IV.vii.29.1[Cordelia to Lear] the violent harms that my two sisters / Have in thy reverence made
MA II.iii.122[Benedick to himself, of Leonato] knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence
MA V.i.64[Leonato to Claudio] I am forced to lay my reverence by
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