Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reverent manner; with reverence; with awe and deep respect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.
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- adverb in a
reverent manner
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- adverb with reverence; in a reverent manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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THE FUTURE EMPEROR shall bear five black moles under each foot, the monk Atami read reverently from the sacred ancient scriptures.
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In the new Internet boardrooms, this Web site loyalty is referred to reverently as eyeball hang time.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In the new Internet boardrooms, this Web site loyalty is referred to reverently as eyeball hang time.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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They remain reverently silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs.
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In the new Internet boardrooms, this Web site loyalty is referred to reverently as eyeball hang time.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In the new Internet boardrooms, this Web site loyalty is referred to reverently as eyeball hang time.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He knew this was giving too much, but to have the projectile built, to sail away, to make all those grand new discoveries, to write books, and have future generations pronounce his name reverently along with Kepler and Newton!
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass
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The chaplain reverently lifted them and laid them at his feet.
Comrades 1911
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The Captain reverently bent over Daisy's little hand, and followed her.
Melbourne House 1907
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In the word reverently is implied the honour due to the Gospel, as also in the place wherein it is said: "Let them hear the words thereof with attention and adore with faith," that is, "Let them show reverence by the posture of the body"; this doth consist -- first in the bending, secondly in the lowering of the hood as is customary, thirdly in bowing at the Names of Jesus and Mary; for those devoted to God have this custom.
The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905
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