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reverential

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1. reverential - Adjective

2. reverential - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.

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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. Whittaker Chambers

I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them. Camille Paglia

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current. Benjamin Walker

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. Caroline Paul

Further reading * citation William Saletan writes of Belfiore's book that "His tone is reverential and at times breathless, but he captures the agency’s essential virtues: boldness, creativity, agility, practicality and speed." Source: Internet

He describes their father as less reverential of blue-collar work than Donald expresses himself to be on the campaign trail: “When Freddy became a commercial airline pilot, his father called him a bus driver in the sky,” Oltchick recalled. Source: Internet

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