Obeisance vs Revere - What's the difference?
obeisance | revere |
Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.
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* 1962 , , How To Do Things With Words (OUP paperback edition), p. 69:
An obedient attitude.
As a noun obeisance
is demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.As a verb revere is
.obeisance
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Alternative forms
* obeisaunce, obeissance, abaisance (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
- In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
- Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
- But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —
- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door —
- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
- The situation in the case of actions which are non-linguistic but similar to performative utterances in that they are the performance of a conventional action (here ritual or ceremonial) is rather like this: suppose I bow deeply before you; it might not be clear whether I am doing obeisance to you or, say, stooping to observe the flora or to ease my indigestion.
