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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