reverent• We are aware that these reunions are in some way historic; for a few seconds we are almost reverent.• Our goal is to find a third way, both reverent and free.• Whispered in reverent and regretfultones, the rumors had been floating for the past few weeks that her condition had worsened.• A prince is only given meaning by the reverentgaze of others.• Long, reverentnewspaperobituaries were produced.• Yet beneath their glowing and reverentportrayal, there seemed to lurk another Abu Kamal.• What little they spoke was in the specially reverentvoicereserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement.• Jacobs' tone becomes reverent when he speaks of Salzer.• They called him Uncle, their attitudereverent yet familiar.
Originreverent
(1300-1400)Latin present participle of revereri; → REVERE