| 单词 | to pay, show, yield deference |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay, show, yield deference 2. Submission to the acknowledged superior claims, skill, judgement, or other qualities, of another. Often in to pay, show, yield deference. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > [noun] > submission to another's superior claims or quality obsequency1595 application1605 deferency1678 deference1702 obsequience1830 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 19 He was..negligent..to correspond with Him with that deference he had used to do, but had the courage to dispute His commands. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iii. i Now, Sir, you shall stay and see what a Deference they pay to my Skill and Authority. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶7 With all the Deference that is due to the Judgment of so great a Man. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 196 Much of this evil has certainly proceeded from undue deference to authorities. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 148 Charles often yielded a strange deference to minds inferior to his own. 1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 6 That voice of authority to which he would have paid most willing deference. < as lemmas |
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