Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reverential manner; with reverence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a reverential manner.
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- adverb In a
reverential manner;worshipfully .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with reverence; in a reverent manner
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Examples
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I do not explore why I consider her departing The Farm a promotion, but with the elevation of station comes a name; we begin to refer to her reverentially as The Old Gray Lady.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I do not explore why I consider her departing The Farm a promotion, but with the elevation of station comes a name; we begin to refer to her reverentially as The Old Gray Lady.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I do not explore why I consider her departing The Farm a promotion, but with the elevation of station comes a name; we begin to refer to her reverentially as The Old Gray Lady.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I do not explore why I consider her departing The Farm a promotion, but with the elevation of station comes a name; we begin to refer to her reverentially as The Old Gray Lady.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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He screamed for joy at the miracle of so many bird-men, and kissed some of them very reverentially, which is his usual way of expressing admiration ....
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Had Mr. Stein desired him to "ascend," he would have "reverentially" -- (I think he wanted to say respectfully -- but devil only knows) -- "reverentially made objects for the safety of proper-ties."
Lord Jim 1899
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He screamed for joy at the miracle of so many bird-men, and kissed some of them very reverentially, which is his usual way of expressing admiration ....
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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"reverentially" -- (I think he wanted to say respectfully -- but devil only knows) -- "reverentially made objects for the safety of properties."
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890
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"Her name is always brought up, almost reverentially, in tech circles," says Sarahjane Sacchetti, communications head at question-and-answer site Formspring.
Digital Anthropologist Kashmir Hill 2011
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I walked reverentially from freezer to freezer to view every flavor.
An Ice Cream Pilgrim's Progress Myla Goldberg 2011
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