reverableadj.

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal iv. x. 95 That infant, innocent Age of Rome, render'd the generality as reverable for Virtue, as was that Grecian, of whom Tully..tells this lovely story.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 159 How little more learned or reverable soever were those three Welsh Prelates than these three English Monks.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 155 I treat so reverable a subject with all possible delicacy.

1842 R. W. Emerson Uncoll. Prose xv. 1214 This man always impresses me with respect..excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap.

1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 109 He was just out of the Theological Seminary—Reverend, and thinking himself reverable.

1915 M. Kelly Carlyle & War iv. 88 Their answers to the pseudo are pitiable, lovable, reverable, never detestable.

1989 W. T. Wheelock in H. P. Alper Mantra iii. 114 A final form used by the Tantric to express the reverable qualities of the deity is sonic in medium but inarticulate.