Reverential

//ˌɹɛvəˈɹɛnʃəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    feeling or manifesting veneration wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that is reverential.

    "But that eccleſiaſtical authority can exiſt (perhaps as far as it ought) without the exerciſe of civil power, we have a proof in this ſect; the degrees of whoſe prieſthood (which are as numerous I believe as in any prieſthood, conſiſting of provincial biſhops, metropolitans (or what amounts to the meaning), deacons, preſbyters, and every order of reverentials) poſſeſs, it ſeems, each one within the circle of their connection, its proper influence, fully and undiſputedly."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin reverentiālis, from Latin reverentia (“reverence”) + -ālis (adjectival suffix).

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin reverentiālis, from Latin reverentia (“reverence”) + -ālis (adjectival suffix).

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