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HOMAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Respectful deference
Example:
pay court to the emperor
Synonyms:
court; homage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("homage" is a kind of...):
deference; respect (a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard)
Context examples:
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Affection, said Miss Lavinia, glancing at her sister for corroboration, which she gave in the form of a little nod to every clause, mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Tom” was evidently the idol of her life; never to be shaken on his pedestal by any commotion; always to be believed in, and done homage to with the whole faith of her heart, come what might.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The relish with which Mr. Micawber described himself as a prey to these dismal calamities, was only to be equalled by the emphasis with which he read his letter; and the kind of homage he rendered to it with a roll of his head, when he thought he had hit a sentence very hard indeed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He told me he was happy to have the honour of making my acquaintance; and when I had paid my homage to Mrs. Waterbrook, presented me, with much ceremony, to a very awful lady in a black velvet dress, and a great black velvet hat, whom I remember as looking like a near relation of Hamlet's—say his aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of Miss Lavinia, who acts as a semi-auxiliary bridesmaid, being the first to cry, and of her doing homage (as I take it) to the memory of Pidger, in sobs; of Miss Clarissa applying a smelling-bottle; of Agnes taking care of Dora; of my aunt endeavouring to represent herself as a model of sternness, with tears rolling down her face; of little Dora trembling very much, and making her responses in faint whispers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
