reverential
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reverential
- /ˌɹɛvəˈɹɛnʃəl/ US
Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin reverentiālis, from Latin reverentia (“reverence”) + -ālis (adjectival suffix).
adjective more reverential · most reverential
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Showing or characterized by reverence; respectful.
The supposed religious tone must be banished, so far as it is applied to the book itself or to the words printed in it; but there is a reverential tone, properly applicable to the meaning conveyed by the words, which should be cultivated.
Similar: reverent · Opposite: irreverential
noun reverentials
- Someone or something that is reverential. But that eccleſiaſtical authority can exiſt (perhaps as far as it ought) without the exerciſe of civil power, we have a proof in this ſect; the degrees of whoſe prieſthood (which are as numerous I believe as in any prieſthood, conſiſting of provincial biſhops, metropolitans (or what amounts to the m
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title = {reverential},
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