reverential
adj/ˌɹɛvəˈɹɛnʃəl/US
Etymology
From Medieval Latin reverentiālis, from Latin reverentia (“reverence”) + -ālis (adjectival suffix).
- borrowed from reverentiālis
Definitions
Showing or characterized by reverence
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.
- The reverential tone intensified as this section progressed. When each spectator had purportedly become her mother, she was invited to share her mother's wisdom, prefaced by the words "I always said."
Someone or something that is reverential.
- The verb is not thereby made reflective, but preserves the same signification as if not reverential. The intransitive reverentials are said to be formed from their compulsive form, and the active from their applicative.
- While reverentials wait / The triumph of His cosmic plan, / The Christ reclaims his millions in this martyrdom of man.
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