Reverence (noun)
rev-er-ens
a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
Reverence was first recorded around 1250–1300 and comes via Middle English from the Latin word reverentia, meaning “respect, fear, awe.” Reverence can also be a verb, which is a synonym of revere.
Example sentences
“he watched his grandfather in reverence with sparkly eyes and awe.”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…