释义 |
reverable, a. rare.|rɪˈvɪərəb(ə)l| [f. revere v. + -able. Cf. F. reverable (Cotgr.).] Worthy of reverence; deserving to be revered.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 159 How little more learned or reverable soever were those three Welsh Prelates than these three English Monks. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 90 The character of a gentleman is the most reverable—the highest of all characters. Ibid. 176 To treat so reverable a subject with all possible delicacy. 1867F. H. Ludlow Fleeing to Tarshish 109 He was just out of the Theological Seminary—Reverend, and thinking himself reverable. |