Reverent
['rev(ə)r(ə)nt] or ['rɛvərənt]
Definition
(adj.) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration; 'maintained a reverent silence' .
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.
(a.) Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reverential.
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Examples
- I touch, with reverent finger, the actual spot where the infant Jesus lay, but I think--nothing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A reverent old patriarch man as you be--seventy if a day--to go hornpiping like that by yourself! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At the end, the Germans were all touched with admiring, delicious melancholy, they praised her in soft, reverent voices, they could not say too much. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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