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reverential

[ UK /ɹˌɛvəɹˈɛnʃə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛvɝˈɛnʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. feeling or manifesting veneration

How To Use reverential In A Sentence

  • Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • The French press, which has traditionally been reverential and unchallenging of its political and cultural elites, decided that his previous use of her to promote his political career meant that the situation was fair game.
  • Gaugin: The painter who invented his own brand of artistic licence life and work for which he can be reverentially remembered: his extensive travels, his experimentalism and his "primitivist" painting style honed in Tahiti - a bold reaction against the Impressionism embraced by most of his WN.com - Articles related to Keira Knightley takes on performance art
  • Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • He opened the ancient book with reverential care.
  • I lost count of the number of times this band was earnestly recommended to me, in reverential tones.
  • Its setting, the courtroom, is a significative and instantly recognizable space, and it relies on a set of props that have been hallowed by centuries of reverential use.
  • She placed it at his feet and said in a low reverential whisper: "Please accept my offering.
  • If anything she's too reverential and deferential.
  • And as for going as cook, — though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board — yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; — though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. Moby Dick; or the Whale
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