REVERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reverently mean? 

• REVERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb REVERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. with reverence; in a reverent manner

  Familiarity information: REVERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With reverence; in a reverent manner

Synonyms:

reverentially; reverently

Context example:

he gazed reverently at the handiwork

Antonym:

irreverently (without respect)

Pertainym:

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

 Context examples 

Holmes turned the body over reverently, and examined it with great attention.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But he had an eye on Tom's passage for all that, and as soon as all was over, came forward with another flag and reverently spread it on the body.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Van Helsing reverently lifted his hat as he answered:—"The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He turned the pages reverently.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, John Thornton would reverently exclaim, God! you can all but speak!

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The bed, the carpet, the chairs the mantelpiece, the dead body, and the rope were each in turn examined, until at last he professed himself satisfied, and with my aid and that of the inspector cut down the wretched object and laid it reverently under a sheet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she raised her head proudly, and held out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and, after stooping and kissing it reverently, held it fast.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us:—"Look! Isten szek!"—"God's seat!"—and he crossed himself reverently.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)