Reverently
['rɛvərəntli]
Definition
(adv.) In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- They all reverently bowed their heads and hearts. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A new dream, which they reverently call Christian, has sprung from their desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There stood a woman, saying softly, oh, far too reverently: 'They have found him, madam! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The priest put on a short white lace garment over his black robe, crossed himself, bowed reverently, and began to turn a windlass slowly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For she looked as reverently at Mr. Casaubon's religious elevation above herself as she did at his intellect and learning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then this must have been Lady Greystoke, said Jane reverently, indicating the poor mass of bones upon the bed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Holmes turned the body over reverently, and examined it with great attention. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Uriah