Reverential
[revə'renʃ(ə)l] or [,rɛvə'rɛnʃl]
Definition
(a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Respectful, deferential, reverent.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse? Plato. The Republic.
- He had nothing to say against the last four; but he regarded them as a reverential pagan regarded other gods than his own. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In fact, he had a reverential soul with a strong practical intelligence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Edison is slow to discuss the great mysteries of life, but is of reverential attitude of mind, and ever tolerant of others' beliefs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Strange how her reverential, almost ecstatic admiration of the flowers caressed his nerves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He is not my private friend and public patron, as Steerforth was, but I hold him in a reverential respect. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Lucinda