deference
deference
Definition
def·er·ence (def′ər əns)
noun
- a yielding in opinion, judgment, or wishes
- courteous regard or respect
Etymology: Fr déférence < L deferens, prp. of deferre: see defer
in deference to
out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
deference
Synonyms
deference
n.
Courteous regard
respect, veneration, homage; see honor 1, reverence 1, 2.Obedience
submission, compliance, yielding; see docility. See syn. study at honor.
deference
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- show: The culinary arts showing proper deference a lot tougher pizza boxes on.
- pay: Why did he have to pay deference to Hanover in his foreign policy?
- give: It is the Lord that you must give deference to.
- expect: He was not deferential to his seniors and did not expect deference from his juniors.
- feel: Many automatically feel a certain deference in their presence.
- require: It requires deference to authority and acceptance of fixed ideas, whereas science requires authority to be continually overthrown in favor of better ideas.
Preposition: for
- authority: I think in our rough crude way we Australians do not have that worry or that undue deference for authority.
Adjective modifier
- due: He will take care that all due deference to be paid to his teachers by his pupils.
- less: They are likely to be pragmatic rather than ideological and there is less deference to ' authoritative ' figures.
- great: But in other respects the emperor showed his mother, Helena, the greatest deference.
- social: It is not less social deference that is needed but more.
- much: We have no whole oats, " the Steward replied, with much deference.
Preposition: in
- society: But even that should be viewed against a broader canvas of the collapse of deference in society as a whole.
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