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Meanings of reverential in English
Synonyms
Examples for "respectful"
Examples for "respectful"
1
Maybe it was the way Rae said it, so respectful and serious.
2
True 'Pac believers may well feel short-changed by Benny Boom's respectful primer.
3
I think that's a really respectful and beautiful part to this campaign.
4
The door opened; the respectable servant came out with a respectful air.
5
In my various jobs I had never been particularly respectful of authority.
1
And I have heard of papists venerating little pieces of saints' bones.
2
As to really venerating and loving him-theless said about that the better.
3
The trend also includes motivating workers with Soviet-style slogans venerating the pleasures of work.
4
Christians began venerating relics of the saints sometime shortly after the death of Jesus.
5
Conscientious-socall I him who goeth into God-forsaken wildernesses, and hath broken his venerating heart.
Usage of reverential in English
1
His respectful manners, his grave bow, and his reverential tone in saying-
2
Yesterday the stillness was reverential, and quite in keeping with Sunday rest.
3
Amongst connoisseurs of the bizarre, McNeal's story was told in reverential whispers.
4
He bowed himself, in reverential awe, before the thought of her martyrdom.
5
Jose Barretto had always been reverential, and so he knelt in prayer.
6
With a reverential movement of the head, the white column moved away.
7
The bronze figure of the Battalion man is dignified, strong and reverential.
8
In fact, he had a reverential soul with a strong practical intelligence.
9
His feeling towards Artois in London had been sympathetic, even almost reverential.
10
Under the Count's tuition he studied with reverential awe the Huescar history.
11
There, with reverential tenderness, the young Duke of Hereward greeted his bride.
12
He found his lordship alone, and was received with almost reverential courtesy.
13
We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens.
14
She dropped her eyes to her fingernails, and spoke with reverential deliberation.
15
Manetho comes out of his retirement, and dances reverential attendance upon her.
16
I felt reverential before that tiny, heroic bird, before its loving impulse.
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Reverential through the time
Reverential across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common