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Curtsy vs. Reverence — What's the Difference?

Curtsy vs. Reverence — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Curtsy and Reverence

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Curtsy

A curtsy (also spelled curtsey or incorrectly as courtsey) is a traditional gesture of greeting, in which a girl or woman bends her knees while bowing her head. It is the female equivalent of male bowing or genuflecting in Western cultures.

Reverence

A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love.

Curtsy

A gesture of respect or reverence made chiefly by women by bending the knees with one foot forward and lowering the body.

Reverence

An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.

Curtsy

To make a curtsy.
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Reverence

Reverence Used as a form of address for certain members of the Christian clergy
Your Reverence.

Curtsy

Alternative spelling of curtsey

Reverence

To consider or treat with profound awe and respect; venerate
"There was nobody whom she reverenced as she reverenced him" (Virginia Woolf).

Curtsy

Alternative spelling of curtsey

Reverence

Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.

Curtsy

Bending at the knees; a gesture of respect made by women

Reverence

An act of showing respect, such as a bow.

Curtsy

A gesture of respectful greeting, for women

Reverence

The state of being revered.

Curtsy

Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect;
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand

Reverence

A form of address for some members of the clergy.
Your reverence

Reverence

That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

Reverence

(transitive) To show or feel reverence to.

Reverence

Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence.
Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear.
When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost.

Reverence

The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence.
And each of them doeth all his diligenceTo do unto the feast reverence.

Reverence

That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
I am forced to lay my reverence by.

Reverence

A person entitled to be revered; - a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. "Sir reverence."
Now lies he there,And none so poor to do him reverence.

Reverence

To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
Let . . . the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise.

Reverence

A profound emotion inspired by a deity;
The fear of God

Reverence

A reverent mental attitude

Reverence

Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;
Fear God as your father
We venerate genius

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