REVERENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reverential mean? 

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

1. feeling or manifesting veneration

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERENTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling or manifesting veneration

Synonyms:

respectful; reverential; venerating

Similar:

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

Derivation:

reverence (a reverent mental attitude)

reverence (a feeling of profound respect for someone or something)

 Context examples 

The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He is not my private friend and public patron, as Steerforth was, but I hold him in a reverential respect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I think the money is the best part of it. What will you do with such a fortune?" asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The windows, to which she looked with peculiar dependence, from having heard the general talk of his preserving them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portrayed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I had often admired, as I have elsewhere described, his benignant manner towards his youthful wife; but the respectful tenderness he manifested in every reference to her on this occasion, and the almost reverential manner in which he put away from him the lightest doubt of her integrity, exalted him, in my eyes, beyond description.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The venerable cathedral towers, and the old jackdaws and rooks whose airy voices made them more retired than perfect silence would have done; the battered gateways, one stuck full with statues, long thrown down, and crumbled away, like the reverential pilgrims who had gazed upon them; the still nooks, where the ivied growth of centuries crept over gabled ends and ruined walls; the ancient houses, the pastoral landscape of field, orchard, and garden; everywhere—on everything—I felt the same serener air, the same calm, thoughtful, softening spirit.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)