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The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that Walpole.

being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost. Bacon.…

One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. A reverend sire among them came. Milton. They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor.

Reverently. [Obs.] Foxe.

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.

In a reverential manner.

In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.

Sclerenchyma.

Secrecy; privacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

Abhorrence of one's self.

The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.

A reverent respect for one's self. Tennyson.

Half of a circumference.

Adherent part way.