REVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revered mean? 

• REVERED (adjective)
  The adjective REVERED has 1 sense:

1. profoundly honored

  Familiarity information: REVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profoundly honored

Synonyms:

august; revered; venerable

Context example:

revered holy men

Similar:

honorable; honourable (worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect)

 Context examples 

So he lived and so he died, the most revered and the happiest man in all his native shire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question—of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I do not hope that any love and duty I may render in return, will ever make me worthy of your priceless confidence; but with all this knowledge fresh upon me, I can lift my eyes to this dear face, revered as a father's, loved as a husband's, sacred to me in my childhood as a friend's, and solemnly declare that in my lightest thought I have never wronged you; never wavered in the love and the fidelity I owe you!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whereas I hold, shouted the other, with my revered preceptor, doctor, praeclarus et excellentissimus, that all things are but thought; for when thought is gone I prythee where are the things then?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)