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reverently en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English reverently, equivalent to reverent + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a reverent manner.
   • One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, 'sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior." 1916, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles:
   • All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed. 1957, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 1”, in Naval Discipline Act 1957, page 1:
   • To right and left, embedded in their stalls, the other canons sit reverently engrossed, birettas hung on the walls behind; […] 1964, Jan Morris, Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

unreverently

Translations (4)

bg почтително (in a reverent manner) · eo respektege (in a reverent manner) · la reverenter (in a reverent manner) · ru почтительно (in a reverent manner)