Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Reverently.

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  • adverb obsolete Reverently.

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  • adverb Obsolete form of reverently.

Etymologies

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reverend +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Yet rake I am, and abominably so, for a person that begins to wrinkle reverendly.

    Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

  • It is matter of great consolation to Christian hearts that our government has so distinctly and reverendly [sic] acknowledged that we are thus helpless and impotent without the wisdom which cometh from above and the help which God can give.

    Sermons, 1861-1865, 1862

  • Let us look reverendly [sic] & yet boldly into the mysterious page of God's providence.

    Sermons, 1861-1865, 1862

  • Majesty, with the advice of your most honourable council, prelates, and ordinaries, be made fewer in number; and those that shall be hereafter ordained to stand and continue, might and may be the more devoutly, religiously, and reverendly observed, to the laud of Almighty God, and to the increase of your high honour and favour.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • For our own part, we are inclined to adopt the policy of the Spanish nobleman, who, when he made his last confession, removed his cap, and reverendly styled him, "my good lord the Devil", every time he had occasion to name him.

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • He saw that, struggle to conceal the fact as priests and devotees might, the awe with which religious doctrines had hitherto been handled by the generality, was destroyed; the mystery in which they had been reverendly shrouded, was henceforth irretrievably rent away.

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • Arthur courteously saluted them, and began to enter into conversation with a respectable farmer who stood near; but the two children, seeing the cross, reverendly took off their caps and crossed themselves, as they had been taught to do; which excited no little astonishment from the bystanders.

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • Yes, and to put off Sorrow, they say, were all right reverendly drunk too.

    The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause 1682

  • _ Yes, and to put off Sorrow, they say, were all right reverendly drunk too.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Moreover, Friday ought to be reverendly respected, in remembrance of him, who died to give us life, and endured his bitter passion, as on that day; which makes me to hold it fit and expedient, that wee should mind more weight), matters, and rather attend our prayers and devotions then the repetition of tales or Novels.

    The Decameron 2004

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