Reverence vs. Awe — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Reverence and Awe
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Reverence
A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love.
Awe
Awe is an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. On Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions awe is modeled as a combination of surprise and fear.
Reverence
An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.
Awe
A feeling of respect or reverence mixed with dread and wonder, often inspired by something majestic or powerful
"There was a fierce purpose in the gale ... that seemed directed at him, and made him hold his breath in awe" (Joseph Conrad).
Reverence
Reverence Used as a form of address for certain members of the Christian clergy
Your Reverence.
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Awe
The power to inspire dread.
Reverence
To consider or treat with profound awe and respect; venerate
"There was nobody whom she reverenced as she reverenced him" (Virginia Woolf).
Awe
Dread.
Reverence
Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.
Awe
To fill with awe
Tourists who are awed by the ancient monument.
Reverence
An act of showing respect, such as a bow.
Awe
A feeling of fear and reverence.
Reverence
The state of being revered.
Awe
A feeling of amazement.
Reverence
A form of address for some members of the clergy.
Your reverence
Awe
(archaic) Power to inspire awe.
Reverence
That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Awe
(transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
Reverence
(transitive) To show or feel reverence to.
Awe
(transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
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.
Awe
Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
His frown was full of terror, and his voiceShook the delinquent with such fits of awe.
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.
Awe
The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
There is an awe in mortals' joy,A deep mysterious fear.
To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe.
The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe - the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power.
Reverence
That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
I am forced to lay my reverence by.
Awe
To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
That same eye whose bend doth awe the world.
His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders.
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.
Awe
An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration;
He stared over the edge with a feeling of awe
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.
Awe
A profound emotion inspired by a deity;
The fear of God
Reverence
A profound emotion inspired by a deity;
The fear of God
Awe
Inspire awe in;
The famous professor awed the undergraduates
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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