revere

From French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- +‎ vereor (“to fear”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹə.viːɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

revere (third-person singular simple present reveres, present participle revering, simple past and past participle revered)

1. (transitive) to regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.

   a highly revered musician

2. (transitive, also religion) to honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol

• respect
• venerate

• contemn
• despise

• reverence

revere (plural reveres)

1. a revers

• veerer

From Old English rēafere; equivalent to reven +‎ -er.

• rævere, reavere, reiver, reaferæ, reavar, revre, revar, revour, refar, reyvour, reyver, rever, ryver

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːvər(ə)/

revere (plural reveres)

1. A robber or burglar; one who steals or thieves.
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Gif tƿa men oþer ·iii· coman ridend to an tun · al þe tunſcipe flugæn foꝛ heom. ƿenden ð hi ƿæron ræuereſ.

     If two or three men came riding into a town, the whole town ran away from them, concluding that they were robbers.

2. A reaver or looter.

• English: reaver
• Scots: refar (obsolete)
• ⇒ Yola: rivery

• “rēver(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

revere

1. Alternative form of ryver