reverently

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10

Definition of reverently

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. in a reverent manner.
    “One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, 'sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior."”
    “All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed.”
    “To right and left, embedded in their stalls, the other canons sit reverently engrossed, birettas hung on the walls behind; […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English reverently, equivalent to reverent + -ly.

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