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reverend

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1. reverend - Noun

2. reverend - Adjective

3. reverend - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. Isaac Watts

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. Sun Myung Moon

The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo - Liberty! Percy Bysshe Shelley

I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex). Mike Tyson

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. Don DeLillo

The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth. Jack McDevitt

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