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reverentially, adv.|rɛvəˈrɛnʃəlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a reverential manner; reverently.
1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 50 They would sit down by them reverentially in the Cave. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. viii. 24 Thus royally adorning and reverentially courting his Ape. a1751Bolingbroke Ess., Hum. Knowledge Wks. 1754 III. 459 He [Plato] made the system..as absurdly as many others, but more reverentially toward the supreme Being. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 110 If the traveller is a Protestant, let him bend his head reverentially. 1881Macm. Mag. XLV. 114/1 Not a voice but spoke lovingly and reverentially of him. |