revere

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVE'RE, verb transitive [Latin revereor; re and vereor, to fear.] To regard with fear mingled with respect and affection; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation. Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father, than treated as his partner in the empire -
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