Reverence vs Elegiac - What's the difference?
reverence | elegiac |
Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.
An act of showing respect, such as a bow.
* Goldsmith
The state of being revered.
* Francis Bacon
A form of address for some members of the clergy.
That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
* Shakespeare
To show reverence.
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Of, or relating to an elegy.
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
* Elizabeth Browning
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
* {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385
, passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}
As nouns the difference between reverence and elegiac
is that reverence is reverence (deep respect) while elegiac is a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.As an adjective elegiac is
of, or relating to an elegy.reverence
English
Noun
- Make twenty reverences upon receiving about twopence.
- When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost.
- your reverence
- I am forced to lay my reverence by.
Verb
elegiac
English
(wikipedia elegiac)Adjective
(en adjective)- the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
- Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
Quotations
* 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?Noun
(en noun)citation