[ UK /dˈɛfɹəns/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛfɝəns, ˈdɛfɹəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. courteous regard for people's feelings
    out of respect for his privacy
    in deference to your wishes
  2. a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard
    his deference to her wishes was very flattering
    be sure to give my respects to the dean
  3. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
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How To Use deference In A Sentence

  • And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
  • Similarly, it is extremely important if you are dealing with any government employee or politician to give due deference. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, on any test of scrutiny or deference, there is no arguable reason for suggesting that this point of the claimant makes the determination assailable.
  • My latest academic upload is about the idea of social deference as a factor influencing vote.
  • But our relationship should be one of mature partnership not one of undue deference.
  • After charging his age with being an enervate breed which is "ever on his knees before the footstool of Authority," he goes on to observe that the process of statute-making ought to make one pause before according so much unquestioned deference to statutes.
  • Either reverence, or deference, may have prevented him from bringing his prayers into entire harmony with his criticisms; or it may be that a discrepance, which we should constantly diminish, is likely to remain between our feelings and our logical necessities. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
  • Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference, and Omi paid it with subtle superiority.
  • This wasn't a principle, it was personal, and it was forelock-tugging deference. Times, Sunday Times
  • One diplomat said the anti-war camp in fact raised no objections to his proposal last week partly out of deference to his more emollient tone on their plans for European Union defence.
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