HONOR, HOMAGE, REVERENCE, DEFERENCE mean respect and esteem shown to another.

HONOR may apply to the recognition of one's right to great respect or to any expression of such recognition.

e.g. the nomination is an honor

HOMAGE adds the implication of accompanying praise.

e.g. paying homage to Shakespeare

REVERENCE implies profound respect mingled with love, devotion, or awe.

e.g. great reverence for my father

DEFERENCE implies a yielding or submitting to another's judgment or preference out of respect or reverence.

e.g. showed no deference to their elders

source: By Archives Départementales de Pyrénées-Orientales 1B31, Public Domain

君主、領主の人間になるという誓いでfealtyよりも重い義務のある誓い

作品に対する敬意→「オマージュ」

special honor or respect shown publicly:

｟かたく｠ «…に対する» 敬意, 尊敬 «to»

e.g. they paid homage to the local boy who became president

e.g. a masterly work written in homage to Beethoven.

historical formal public acknowledgment of feudal allegiance:

e.g. a man doing homage to his personal lord.

Middle English: Old French, from medieval Latin hominaticum, from Latin homo, homin- ‘man’ (the original use of the word denoted the ceremony by which a vassal declared himself to be his lord's ‘man’).