revere
English edit
Etymology edit
From French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
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Verb edit
revere (third-person singular simple present reveres, present participle revering, simple past and past participle revered)
- (transitive) to regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
- a highly revered musician
- (transitive, also religion) to honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol
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to regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
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to venerate someone or something as an idol
Noun edit
revere (plural reveres)
- a revers
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English rēafere; equivalent to reven + -er.
Alternative forms edit
- rævere, reavere, reiver, reaferæ, reavar, revre, revar, revour, refar, reyvour, reyver, rever, ryver
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Noun edit
revere (plural reveres)
- A robber or burglar; one who steals or thieves.
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- Gif tƿa men oþer ·iii· coman ridend to an tun · al þe tunſcipe flugæn foꝛ heom. ƿenden ð hi ƿæron ræuereſ.
- If two or three men came riding into a town, the whole town ran away from them, concluding that they were robbers.
- A reaver or looter.
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References edit
- “rēver(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
revere
- Alternative form of ryver