reverently
/ɹˈɛvɚəntli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, 'sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior.""
- "All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed."
- "To right and left, embedded in their stalls, the other canons sit reverently engrossed, birettas hung on the walls behind; […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more reverently (comparative)
most reverently (superlative)