Word Meanings - REVERENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton. 2. Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words;
Additional info about word: REVERENT
1. Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton. 2. Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior. Joye.
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- DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - REVERENTIALLY
In a reverential manner. - DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - WORDSMAN
One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell. - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - IMPRESS
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and - PROSTRATE
Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. - DISPOSED
1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer. - VENERATION
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, - HUMBLE
humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking - REVERENDLY
Reverently. Foxe. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - DISPOSINGLY
In a manner to dispose. - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley. - IMPRESSIONABLE
Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook. - UNREVERENT
Irreverent. Shak. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THUMBLESS
Without a thumb. Darwin. - SELF-DEVOTION
The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice. - SWORDSMANSHIP
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper. - UNREVERENCE
Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif. - FOREDISPOSE
To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller. - INEXPRESSIBLY
In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.