reverential

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVEREN'TIAL, adjective [from reverence.] Proceeding from reverence, or expressing it; as reverential fear or awe; reverential gratitude or esteem. Religion - consisting in a reverential esteem of things sacred.
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